Title: A history of the thermometer and its use in meteorology,
Authors: Middleton, W. E. Knowles 1902-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
Year: 1966
Subjects: Thermometers History.; Thermometers history; Atmospheric temperature Measurement.
Contents: Air thermoscope and air thermometer -- The invention of the liquid-in-glass thermometer -- Seventeenth-century developments -- The search for rational scales -- Difficulties and refinements -- Maximum and minimum thermometers -- Deformation thermometers -- Electrical thermometers -- Recording thermometers -- The exposure of thermometers.