types of glass thermometers
Liquid-In-Glass Thermometers. A liquid-in-glass thermometer is the simplest and most commonly employed type of temperature measurement device. It is one of the oldest thermometers available in the industry. It gives fairly accurate results within the temperature range of -200 to 600Â°C. No special means are needed to measure temperature via these thermometers.
Mercury-in-glass thermometer for measurement of room temperature. The mercury-in-glass or mercury thermometer was invented by physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in Amsterdam (1714). It consists of a bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter; the volume of mercury in the tube is much less than the volume of the bulb.