Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

This is a timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology or the history of temperature measurement and pressure measurement technology.

Timeline

1500s

1592–1593 — Galileo Galilei builds a device showing variation of hotness known as the thermoscope using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube.

1600s

1612 — Santorio Sanctorius makes the first thermometer for medical use.
1617 — Giuseppe Biancani published the first clear diagram of a thermoscope
1624 — The word thermometer (in its French form) first appeared in La Récréation Mathématique by Jean Leurechon, who describes one with a scale of 8 degrees.
1685 — Giovanni Alfonso Borelli's posthumously published De motu animalium ["On the movements of animals"] reported that the temperature of blood in a vivisected stag is the same in the left ventricle of the heart, the liver, lungs and intestines.
1688 — Joachim Dalencé proposed constructing a thermometer by dividing into 20 equal degrees the interval between freezing water and melting butter, then extrapolating 4 degrees upwards and downwards.
1694 ― Carlo Rinaldini proposed a universal scale of 12 degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water, along with a corresponding calibration procedure.
1695 — Guillaume Amontons improved the thermometer.

1700s

1701 — Newton publishes anonymously a method of determining the rate of heat loss of a body and introduces a scale, which had 0 degrees represent the freezing point of water, and 12 degrees for human body temperature. He used linseed oil as the thermometric fluid.
1731 — René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur produced a scale in which 0 represented the freezing point of water and 80 represented the boiling point. This was chosen as his alcohol mixture expanded 80 parts per thousand. He did not consider pressure.
1738 — Daniel Bernoulli asserted in Hydrodynamica the principle that as the speed of a moving fluid increases, the pressure within the fluid decreases. (Kinetic theory)
1742 — Anders Celsius proposed a temperature scale in which 100 represented the temperature of melting ice and 0 represented the boiling point of water at 25 inches and 3 lines of barometric mercury height. so that on the present-day definition, this boiling point is 99.67 degrees Celsius.
1743 — Jean-Pierre Christin had worked independently of Celsius and developed a scale where zero represented the melting point of ice and 100 represented the boiling point but did not specify a pressure.
1845 — Francis Ronalds invents the first successful Barograph based on photography
1848 — Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) – Kelvin scale, in his paper, On an Absolute Thermometric Scale
1849 — Eugène Bourdon – Bourdon_gauge (manometer)
1849 — Henri Victor Regnault – Hypsometer
1864 — Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer
1866 — Thomas Clifford Allbutt invented a clinical thermometer that produced a body temperature reading in five minutes as opposed to twenty.
1871 — William Siemens describes the Resistance thermometer at the Bakerian Lecture
1874 — Herbert McLeod invents the McLeod gauge
1885 — Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device
1887 — Richard Assmann invents the psychrometer (Wet and Dry Bulb Thermometers)
1892 — Henri-Louis Le Châtelier builds the first optical pyrometer
1896 — Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch introduced the Sphygmomanometer to measure blood pressure

1900s

1906 — Marcello Pirani – Pirani gauge (to measure pressures in vacuum systems)
1915 — J.C. Stevens — Chart recorder (first chart recorder for environmental monitoring)
1924 — Irving Langmuir — Langmuir probe (to measure plasma parameters)
1930 — Samuel Ruben invented the thermistor

References

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