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Wireless
Thermometers
Wireless thermometers are great to have in the home! They can help
educate children, as well as monitor the temperature of your home.
This website was created for anyone in need of information on wireless
thermometers. Purchasing electronic products such as wireless thermometers
can be tricky because you want to make sure it will have all the
features you need. At wirelessthermometers.net we hope that all
of your questions are answered and that we help lead you to the
best wireless thermometer for you.
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Did You Know???
1) The invention of the thermometer is attributed to Galileo.
2) The first sealed thermometer was produced by the German physicist
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1714.
3) The first half of the eighteenth century marks the real beginning
of both the technology and the science of heat. In these fifty years
it became clear that heat could be employed to do useful work, replacing
that of men, horses, wind, or falling water. These had been the
only available means to do significant work throughout human history.
Theoretical ideas, which were clearly formulated by the end of the
century, began to develop before 1750. The two most important of
these were the suggestion that heat might be conserved and the distinction
between amount of heat or quantity of heat and quality of heat.
Quality of heat is what we now call temperature and the study of
temperature is called thermometry. The study of amount of heat is
called calorimetry.
4) The advances in thermometry in the first half of the eighteenth
century included the significant work of Guillaume Amontons (d.
1705) on gases. He studied the expansion of gases on heating but
did not achieve formulation of Charles' Law. He developed the air
thermometer, which measures the increase in pressure of a system
of constant volume when the temperature increases, and also made
significant studies of the liquid-in-glass thermometer. The liquids
used in a thermometer by Amontons, and still used today, are alcohol
(with red dye in it, used at low temperatures), linseed oil (for
higher temperatures), water, and mercury.
5) FAHRENHEIT, Daniel Gabriel (1686-1736). The German physicist
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709
and the mercury thermometer in 1714. In 1724 he introduced the temperature
scale that bears his name.
6) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born in GdaNsk, Poland, on May
24, 1686. After studying and traveling he eventually settled in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he became a maker of scientific
instruments. He discovered a method for cleaning mercury so that
it would not stick to a glass tube. This was essential to devising
his mercury thermometer.
7) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit used fixed points on his temperature
scale by taking the temperature of a mixture of ice water and salt
as the low point and the human body temperature as the high point.
The space between he divided into 96 degrees. He later adjusted
the scale slightly so as not to have fractions for the freezing
and boiling points of water. The freezing point of water then became
32°F (0°C) and the boiling point 212°F (100°C).
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