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 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.
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