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Galileo Galilei invented the water thermomscope which you could measure the tempature
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Used wine and made first alcohol theremometer
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Italian inventor Santorio Santorio put numerical value on the thermometer
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The first enclosed glass thermometer was invented
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Gabriel Fahrenheit settled on mercury as the most suitable liquid for measuring temperature
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René Antoine Ferchauld de Réamur proposed a thermometer scale on which the freezing point of water was 0°
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Swedish scientist named Anders Celsius devised a thermometer scale dividing the freezing and boiling points of water into 100 degrees
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Sir William Thomson, proposed the absolute temperature scale with zero degrees being the theoretical lowest temperature possible where molecular motion ceases.
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The freezing point of water could now be referred to, for instance, as “273.15 Kelvin.”
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David Phillips invented the infra-red ear thermometer
