- Six's
maximum and
minimum thermometer is a
registering thermometer that can
record the
maximum and
minimum temperatures reached over a
period of time,...
- The mercury-in-gl**** or
mercury thermometer is a
thermometer that uses the
thermal expansion and
contraction of
liquid mercury to
indicate the temperature...
- A
thermometer is a
device that
measures temperature (the
hotness or
coldness of an object) or
temperature gradient (the
rates of
change of temperature...
- The
alcohol thermometer or
spirit thermometer has a
similar construction and
theory of
operation as a mercury-in-gl****
thermometer. However, the thermometric...
- An
infrared thermometer is a
thermometer which infers temperature from a
portion of the
thermal radiation sometimes called black-body
radiation emitted...
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noted for his invention, in 1780, of Six's
thermometer,
commonly known as the maximum-
minimum thermometer. This
device is
still in
common use
today and...
- station's
usual maximum thermometer had been
damaged and then
replaced by an uncalibrated,
ordinary maximum-
minimum thermometer of the kind
often used...
-
represented the
boiling point. 1782 —
James Six
invents the
Maximum minimum thermometer 1821 —
Thomas Johann Seebeck invents the
thermocouple 1844 — Lucien...
-
minimum thermometer left near Browne's Tower, at
about 15,000 feet (4,600 m), on
Denali by the Stuck-Karstens
party in 1913. The
spirit thermometer was...
- The earliest, and
still perhaps most familiar, form is the
Maximum minimum thermometer invented by
James Six in 1782.[citation needed]
Today a
typical MMTS...
