thermoscope

British  

/ ˈθɜːməˌskəʊp, ˌθɜːməˈskɒpɪk /

noun

1. a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature

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Other Word Forms

• thermoscopic adjective
• thermoscopically adverb

Example Sentences

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 Bolton, Sarah K.

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 Multhauf, Robert P.

To turn a modern thermometer into a thermoscope we need only remove the figures from its scale.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

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 Munro, John

Torricelli's apparatus, unlike Galileo's thermoscope, represented the barometer in essentially its classical form.

From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Multhauf, Robert P.