[DOC] [TLE] The First Thermometer | DiscoverMagazine.com [PAR] Oct 1, 1997 ... ... tube partly filled with water or alcohol--and a sealed liquid thermometer, at 
near right. ... Delmedigo does not claim to have invented the device, says Adler. 
... Adler suspects that Galileo, or perhaps a physician named Santorio Santorio, 
... instrument needing frequent refills to replace evaporated alcohol. [DOC] [TLE] Real-life applications - Temperature - Development of the ... [PAR] The great physicist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is sometimes credited with ... 
Certainly Galileowhether or not he was the firstdid build a thermoscope, 
which ... the liquidwhich was usually colored water, though Galileo's 
thermoscope used ... also built the first thermometer to contain mercury as a 
thermometric medium. [DOC] [TLE] Thermometer - Wikipedia [PAR] A Thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature gradient. 
... This is the reason behind mercury and alcohol being used in thermometer. .... 
At temperatures around about 4 C, water does not have the property (3), and is 
.... Galileo thermometers are used to measure indoor air temperature, due to their
... [DOC] [TLE] Who invented the thermometer - Brannan [PAR] Galileo Galilei is often claimed to be the inventor of the thermometer. ... The 
Italian, Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) is generally credited with having ... Gabriel 
Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was the first person to make a thermometer using 
mercury. ... measured) and the freezing point of water as fixed points - this is not 
true. [DOC] [TLE] Temperature: Facts, History & Definition - Live Science [PAR] Sep 20, 2013 ... Galen, a Greek scientist and physician, made the first attempt at ... However, the 
thermoscope could not provide an exact temperature in degrees. ... Fahrenheit 
had invented an alcohol thermometer in 1709 prior to unveiling its mercury ... The 
original scale set 0 as the boiling point of water and 100 as the... [DOC] [TLE] OP25 [PAR] The temperature assessments of receptors in our skin are usually sufficient for 
our ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is credited with being the first person to devise 
a ... On removing his hands the air in the bulb cooled and contracted and water 
rose ... Leopold de Medici, constructed a thermometer which contained alcohol 
and... [DOC] [TLE] Thermometer - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Nov 25, 2015 ... Galileo also discovered that objects (glass spheres filled with aqueous ... Most 
thermometers are originally calibrated to a constant-volume gas thermometer. ... 
Mercury, unlike water, does not expand upon solidification and will not break ... If 
the thermometer contains nitrogen the gas may flow down into the... [DOC] [TLE] Read Online - JStor [PAR] who died in 1637 ; to Galileo (prior to 1597) ; to Cornelius. Drebbel of Alcmar ... 
atmospheric pressure, and the tube was either not graduated ... The first alcohol 
thermometer is said to have been made ... the temperature of freezing water, 1 20 
blood heat, and 34o ... laaooo part of the total volume of mercury contained in the
. [DOC] [TLE] News - History of Thermometery - TM Electronics (UK) Ltd [PAR] Aug 13, 2013 ... Galileo Galilei (1564  1642), the famous Tuscan physician, ... The invention of 
the first true thermometer is generally credited to ... to make his thermometers 
with mercury instead of alcohol. ... to the temperature of boiling water, which was 
said to be 212 degrees. ... You have no items in your shopping cart. [DOC] [TLE] Black [PAR] of the sciences of heat and mechanics did not occur until near the middle of the 
nineteenth century ... vention, for his own writings, so far as they have survived, 
contain only ... Thus Galileo's instrument is usually referred to as a ... ing the 
expansion of alcohol instead of water (Plate I, I, 2), was devel .... Mercury had 
previously. [DOC] [TLE] Electropaedia History of Science and Technology, Development of ... [PAR] They did not have the benefit of cheap, off the shelf, mass produced batteries. .... 
Circa 500 B.C. Cast iron was produced for the first time

Question: Usually credited to Galileo, it originally contained water or alcohol, not mercury
Answer: Thermometer