Science Museum - Home - Six's self-registering thermometer, Miller ...
James Six (1731-1793) retired early from business to devote himself to the natural sciences. He is best known for the invention of the self-registering thermometer, first designed in 1780, which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures reached. ...
In 1780 James Six (1731 1793), a retired business man, designed a self-registering thermometer to measure and record maximum and minimum temperatures. This popular pattern was used for taking sea temperatures for the next 90 years, when Dr W Miller (
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects_old/oceanography/1876-819.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Mercury-in-glass thermometer, 1743-1799
This thermometer, in a folding wooden case, has a paper scale graduated from -35 degrees to +100 degrees Celsius. The Celsius scale of heat measurement was invented in 1742 by the Swedish astronomer, Anders Celsius (1701-1744). The Celsius, or Centig...
Mercury-in-glass thermometer, made by Pierre Casati, in folding wooden case 12 1/2 x 1 3/ 8" x 5/8" (paper scale graduated from -35 deg to +100 deg according to the scale introduced by Christin in 1743)"
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/heat/1951-581.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Thermometer, 1720-1750.
Casartel of Amsterdam made this alcohol thermometer. He marked it with both Fahrenheit and Florentine scales, as no one scale was universally recognised at the time. The domestic design of the thermometer shows its probable origin as a stylish orname...
Casartel of Amsterdam made this alcohol thermometer. He marked it with both Fahrenheit and Florentine scales, as no one scale was universally recognised at the time. The domestic design of the thermometer shows its probable origin as a stylish orname
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/meteorology/1954-254.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Six's self-registering thermometer, Miller ...
James Six (1731-1793) retired early from business to devote himself to the natural sciences. He is best known for the invention of the self-registering thermometer, first designed in 1780, which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures reached. ...
In 1780 James Six (1731 1793), a retired business man, designed a self-registering thermometer to measure and record maximum and minimum temperatures. This popular pattern was used for taking sea temperatures for the next 90 years, when Dr W Miller (
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/oceanography/1876-819.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Six's self-registering thermometer, 18th ...
James Six (1731-1793) retired early from business to devote himself to the natural sciences. He is best known for the invention of the self-registering thermometer, first designed in 1780, which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures reached.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I018/10284093.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Barometer, thermometer and hygrometer ...
This combined barometer, thermometer and hygrometer was made by George Graham (1673-1751), the leading clockmaker of his day. Graham has signed the dial of the central hygrometer in this three part table instrument. The measure of humidity by the hyg...
This combined barometer, thermometer and hygrometer was made by George Graham (1673-1751), the leading clockmaker of his day. Graham has signed the dial of the central hygrometer in this three part table instrument. The measure of humidity by the hyg
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/meteorology/1928-705.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer ...
The innovative feature of tthe Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer was the tiny steel springs inside the tubes. These would be pushed up by the mercury or down by the spirit in the tubes as temperature changed, and would lodge at the extreme p...
The aspect that made the Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer innovative was the way the temperatures reached were marked by a tiny steel spring inside the tube. This would be pushed up by the mercury or down by the spirit, and lodge at the ext
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/meteorology/1915-421.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Vaccine carrier, thermometer, and monitor ...
These items are designed to maintain the cold-chain in vaccine delivery. The monitor cards (with instructions in English and French) change colour if exposed to temperatures above the safe limit over a period of time. All the items were approved by U
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I025/10287503.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Mercury in glass thermometer, 1775-1785.
Made by George Adams of Fleet Street, London. The temperature scale ranges from minus 13 to plus 217 degrees Fahrenheit - beyond the range of most weathers....
Made by George Adams of Fleet Street, London. The temperature scale ranges from minus 13 to plus 217 degrees Fahrenheit - beyond the range of most weathers.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/meteorology/1995-967.aspx
Science Museum - Home - Thermometer, 1720-1750.
Casartel of Amsterdam made this alcohol thermometer. He marked it with both Fahrenheit and Florentine scales, as no one scale was universally recognised at the time. The domestic design of the thermometer shows its probable origin as a stylish orname
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I044/10313144.aspx
