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Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology
- 1592 - Galileo Galilei builds a crude thermometer using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube
- 1612 - Santorre Santorio puts thermometer to medical use
- 1643 - Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
- 1714 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury in glass thermometer
- 1821 - T.J. Seebeck invents the thermocouple
- 1864 - Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer
- 1885 - Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device
- 1892 - Henri-Louis Le Châtelier builds the first optical pyrometer
