The Thermometer is used by meteorologists today. The Thermometer is one of the main weather tools. A Thermometer is most used in weather readings. The history of the Thermometer is very interesting. The Thermometer was invented very long ago and it also had a different name than it does now.
The first mercury Thermometer was invented by Gabriel Fahrenheit at the start of the seventeenth century. A lot of people during the early seventeenth century,people were trying to create Thermometers. Mercury is a chemical that expands when it gets hot and shrinks when it gets cold. A Thermometer can have between a half a gram and 1 and a half grams of mercury inside of it. It can also contain alcohol or other liquids that expand when heated. ("Is Your Home Mercury Free?")
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It is the main part of the Thermometer. The Thermometer is used to measure temperature and it also scales Fahrenheit and Celsius,which measures hotness and coldness of something, it can also be used to measure the temperature of the ground at night. Kelvin is also a scale of measurement by a Belfast-born British inventor and scientist William Thomson also known as Lord Kelvin. Fahrenheit is the most commonly used scale in the in the country.We use a scale called Fahrenheit in the United States, Fahrenheit is a temperature scale that has a boiling point at 212 and freezing point at 32 degrees. Celsius has a boiling point of 100 and a freezing point of 0. “Who Invented the Thermometer, Fahrenheit Celsius, and Kelvin