[DOC] [TLE] Alcohol thermometer - Wikipedia [PAR] The alcohol thermometer is an alternative to the mercury-in-glass thermometer 
and has similar functions. Unlike the mercury-in-glass thermometer, the contents 
of an alcohol thermometer are less toxic and will evaporate away fairly quickly. 
The ethanol version is the most widely used due to the low cost and ... With 
increasing temperature, the volume of liquid expands and the meniscus... [DOC] [TLE] Medical thermometer - Wikipedia [PAR] A medical thermometer, also known as a daddy thermometer is used for 
measuring human ... Fahrenheit also created the temperature scale which is 
named after him, .... The first electronic clinical thermometer, invented in 1954, 
used a flexible ... accurate or reliable to replace the traditional glass/mercury 
thermometers"... [DOC] [TLE] Temperature and Thermometers - The Physics Classroom [PAR] For certain, we are comfortable with the first two definitions - the degree or 
measure of ... science class is the type that consists of a liquid encased in a 
narrow glass column. Older thermometers of this type used liquid mercury. ... The 
Celsius scale is the most widely accepted temperature scale used throughout the 
world. [DOC] [TLE] temperature facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Get information, facts, and pictures about temperature at Encyclopedia.com. ... 
These measuring devices are gauged in several different ways, with scales 
based on ... First, replace the falling tree with a hypothetical object possessing a 
certain .... Ferdinand's thermometer used alcohol sealed in glass, which was 
marked with... [DOC] [TLE] The History of the Thermometer - Inventors - About.com [PAR] In a mercury or alcohol thermometer the liquid expands as it is heated and 
contracts ... In 1654, the first enclosed liquid-in-a-glass thermometer was 
invented by the ... temperature scale that bears his name - Fahrenheit Scale - that 
was used to... [DOC] [TLE] Cyberphysics - thermometers [PAR] Click here for a diagram of a liquid in glass thermometer and the rules on using 
one ... It can be used to measure the temperature of gases, liquids, and solids. It 
works by ... An truly accurate thermometer using alcohol was first developed in 
1641. .... Extremely reliable platinum resistance thermometers are used to 
measure... [DOC] [TLE] Mercury Thermometers | Mercury in Your Environment | US EPA [PAR] Sep 13, 2016 ... In a mercury thermometer, a glass tube is filled with mercury and a standard ... 
and contracts, and the temperature can be read from the scale. Mercury 
thermometers can be used to determine body, liquid, and vapor temperature. ... A 
variety of accurate and reliable mercury-free fever thermometers are... [DOC] [TLE] Fahrenheit temperature scale - Sizes [PAR] Jul 27, 2011 ... A temperature scale used in the English-speaking world and parts of ... its use on 
the first reliable, commercially-available, mercury-in-glass thermometers. Daniel 
Gabriel Fahrenheit manufactured such thermometers in... [DOC] [TLE] Calibration with confideence - the assurance of temperature accuracy [PAR] First, it is used to describe the process of comparing the reading of one 
instrument ... mercury-in-glass thermometer -- used to calibrate temperature 
devices under "daily .... These reference thermometers have scale graduations, 
in the moderate ranges, .... determining a reliable correction factor to apply to 
calibration results) [DOC] [TLE] Who invented the thermometer - Brannan [PAR] The thermoscope was widely used by a group of scientists in Venice that ... The 
sealed liquid-in-glass thermometer, more familiar to us today, was first ... Gabriel 
Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was the first person to make a thermometer using 
mercury. ... fixed points to devise the first standard temperature scale for his 
thermometer... [DOC] [TLE] thermometer | measurement instrument | Britannica.com [PAR] The unit of temperature (degree) on the Fahrenheit temperature scale is 1/180 of 
the ... The first centigrade scale (made up of 100 degrees) is attributed to the 
Swedish ... in its temperature can be used as the basic component in a 
thermometer. ... The liquid is almost always mercury, sealed in a glass tube with 
nitrogen gas... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 2 Measurement

Question: The first reliable mercury-in-glass thermometers used this temperature scale
Answer: Fahrenheit