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Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

1592 — Galileo Galilei builds a crude thermometer using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube
1612 — Santorre Santorio puts thermometer to medical use
1643 — Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
1714 — Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury in glass thermometer
1821 — T.J. Seebeck invents the thermocouple
1864 — Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer
1885 — Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device
1892 — Henri-Louis Le Châtelier builds the first optical pyrometer