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 – Henry Louis Le Chatelier builds the first optical pyrometer
