Wireless Thermometer Features, Facts, and Timeline

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Other sections of our site cover the use and maintenance of your wireless thermometer. Excellent care will increase the durability as well as accuracy of your product- which in turn ensures that you are getting what you deserve from the product. An area of the site is also dedicated to providing news stories relevant to the subject (for those who just love keeping up with technology.)

To understand the wireless thermometer, it is of course necessary to understand the history of the thermometer in general.

The invention of the thermometer has been attributed to many different people including Avicenna around the 11th century and Galileo near the end of the 16th. However, a more accurate description of these inventions would be to call them “thermoscopes.” This is because they reflected changes within temperatures as opposed to a specific measurement of the temperature, as thermometers do.

The first sealed thermometer was produced by the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1714.

Technological advancements and understandings related to the science of heat began in the first half of the eighteenth century. At that time, people were beginning to understand the ability of heat to increase or replace work done by men and horses as well as wind and basic hydropower.

Important theoretical ideas which developed during then included the concept of conserving heat as well as distinctions between amount, quantity, and quality of heat. Their idea of quality of heat became what we today call temperature, while the study of temperature is called thermometry. The study of heat amounts is called calorimetry.

Guillaume Amontons’s work on gases was important to the advances in thermometry. Among his contributions were the development of the air thermometer and studies related to the liquid-in-glass thermometer. The liquids used then and today include alcohol with red dye for low temperatures and linseed oil for higher temperatures. Water and mercury are also used.

This alcohol thermometer was invented in 1709 by German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. He also invented the mercury thermometer in 1714. The temperature scale he developed in 1724 bears his name.

To learn more about the history of thermometers, please visit the timeline section of this Web site. Our Frequently Asked Questions page more directly addresses top questions related to wireless thermometers.

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