Wireless Thermometers

Growing up, my dad always had wireless thermometers installed in our home and it was always so enjoyable to watch it change. When the seasons would change the dials and readings would dramatically change to read the weather activity outside. Since then technology has changes dramatically and there are so many different options out there for wireless thermometers. They are a great way to educate your family on what occurs in the environment and how thermometers work.

Thermometers can also make a great gift for anyone who loves researching weather for a hobby. They are fairly easy to set up, depending on the model, and do not require a lot of maintenance.

This website was created for anyone in need of information on wireless thermometers. Purchasing electronic products such 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).

8) KELVIN, Lord (1824-1907). William Thomson, who became Lord Kelvin of Largs (Scotland) in 1892, was one of Great Britain's foremost scientists and inventors. He published more than 650 scientific papers and patented some 70 inventions. He is known for developing a temperature scale in which -273.15°C (-459.67°F) is absolute zero. The scale is known as the absolute, or Kelvin, temperature scale.

9) Absolute zero, in physics, the temperature at which molecular movement virtually ceases and the lowest level of energy is reached; measures -273.15° on the Celsius scale, -459.67° on the Fahrenheit scale; temperature scales having absolute zero as their starting point, such as the Kelvin and Rankine scales, are called absolute temperature scales; idea of absolute zero originated with study of gas contraction at decreased temperatures.

10) The Fahrenheit scale is used for engineering and household purposes. The Celsius scale, formerly called the centigrade scale, is universally used for scientific measurement. Each of these scales has a corresponding absolute scale based on the absolute zero. The absolute Celsius scale is called the Kelvin scale. The absolute Fahrenheit scale is called the Rankine scale.