Figure 1. Cavendish thermometer. Beginning in 1757 Lord Charles Cavendish,vice-president of the Royal Society, invented and described a number of thermometers utilizing the principle of the dilatation of liquid. One of these was a minimum thermomet
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Photographer: Y. Berard
Credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Subject: Oceanography
Subject: Historical instruments