Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology 1592 - Galileo Galilei builds a crude thermometer using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube 1612 - Santorre Santorio puts thermometer to medical use 1643 - Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer 1714 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury in glass thermometer 1821 - T.J. Seebeck invents the thermocouple 1864 - Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer 1885 - Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device 1892 - Henri-Louis Le Châtelier builds the first optical pyrometer See also List of timelines. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.