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 — Thomas Johann 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
See also List of timelines.