thermoscope
Britishnoun
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- thermoscopic adjective
- thermoscopically adverb
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This instrument, which he called a thermoscope, was of especial service in making known to him the varied and powerful influence of different surfaces in the transmission of heat, and also for indicating a variety of methods for retarding or hastening at will the processes of heating and freezing....
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In order to determine the effect of radiation in the cooling of bodies, Rumford employed the thermoscope referred to by Cuvier.
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He took a workman into his family, and began to superintend the making of the compass which he had invented, and the thermoscope, or heat indicator, which led in later years to the thermometer.
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The conversion of this open, air-expansion thermoscope into the modern thermometer was accomplished by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento about 1660.
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The instrument shown in his sketch resembles a Galilean thermoscope.
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