thermoscope
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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.
From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Robert P. Multhauf
The 'micro-tasimeter,' a delicate thermoscope, was constructed in 1878, and is the outcome of Edison's experiments with the carbon button.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro
The instrument shown in his sketch resembles a Galilean thermoscope.
From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Robert P. Multhauf
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.
From Famous Men of Science by Sarah K. Bolton
To turn a modern thermometer into a thermoscope we need only remove the figures from its scale.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
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