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A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.
Townsend, F. H. (Frederick Henry), 1868-1920.Date: 1907Reference: 15353i- Pictures
Clocks: a marine chronometer, barometer, and thermometer. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40838i- Books
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The nature of the thermometer deduced from Sir Isaac Newton's scale of degrees of heat hereunto annexed.
Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six.
Six, James, 1731-1793.Date: 1794- Pictures
Clocks: a [combined?] marine chronometer, barometer, and thermometer. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40737i- Books
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An attempt to compare and connect the thermometer for strong fire, described in volume LXXII. of the Philosophical transactions, with the common mercurial ones. By Mr. Josiah Wedgewood, ... Read at the Royal Society, May 13, 1784.
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795.Date: 1784]- Pictures
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A domestic weather-station: combined thermometer, hygrometer, and barometer. Engraving after B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Reference: 47021i- Books
The clinical thermometer : its history and development / by C.J.S. Thompson.
Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943Date: 1927- Books
Remarks on the use of the thermometer in disease / by John Southey Warter.
Warter, John Southey.Date: 1866- Books
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The construction and use of a thermometer, for shewing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat; and other meteorological observations. By James Six, Esq. F.R.S.
Six, James, 1731-1793.Date: 1794- Books
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Account of a self-acting thermometer, adapted for the regulation of temperature / [George Cumming].
Cumming, George, 1781?-1863.Date: 1830- Books
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Additional observations on making a thermometer for measuring the higher degrees of heat. By Mr. Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S. and A.S. and potter to Her Majesty. Read at the Royal Society, June 22, 1786.
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Pictures
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A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17083i- Books
The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.
Castle, Terry.Date: 1995- Books
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On endocarditis and the use of the thermometer in its diagnosis / by T. Lauder Brunton.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: 1897- Pictures
A woman in labour sitting up in hospital bed with a thermometer in her mouth.
Spears, Heather, 1934-Date: 1987Reference: 3329265i.5Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.- Books
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An account of the principle and effects of the air stove-grates, (which warm Rooms, &c. by a continual Introduction and Exchange of dry fresh Air,) commonly known by the name of American stoves: together with a description of the late additions and improvements made to them by James Sharp, (for which his Majesty's patent is obtained,) No. 15, Leadenhall-Street, London. Either warm or cold Air may (by this Improvement) be drawn through the Stove so as to raise or lower the Thermometer at Pleasure: And, it is found by Experience, if a Room be made ever so warm it will still be fresh Air, perfectly free from Smell, and agreeable to the nicest Breath and tenderest Lungs. N. B. The Manufactory is at No. 133, Tooley-Street, Southwark.
Sharp, James, -1783.Date: [1781?]- Books
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An account of the principle and effects of the air stove-grates, (which warm Rooms, &c. by a continual Introduction and Exchange of dry fresh Air,) Commonly known by the Name of American Stoves: together with a description of the late additions and improvements made to them By James Sharp, (for which his Majesty's Patents for Great-Britain are obtained,) No. 15, Leadenhall-Street, London. Either warm or cold Air may (by this Improvement) be drawn through the Stove so as to raise or lower the Thermometer at Pleasure: And, it is found by Experience, if a Room be made ever so warm it will still be fresh Air, perfectly free from Smell, and agreeable to the nicest Breath and tenderest Lungs. N. B. The Manufactory is at No. 133, Tooley-Street, Southwark.
Sharp, James, -1783.Date: [1785]- Books
On the value of the thermometer as an aid to the physician / by W. Ainslie Hollis.
Hollis, W. Ainslie.Date: 1867- Archives and manuscripts
De Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault (1683-1757), French natural philosopher and entomologist, inventor of the thermometer
De Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault, 1683-1757Date: 1732-1756Reference: MS.7447- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42545i- Pictures
A male nurse reading a thermometer in a French military hospital ward, with the words "l'alphabet de l'armée". Chromolithograph after P. Abadie-Landel, 1916.
Abadie-Landel, Pierre, active 1916-1937.Date: 1916Reference: 23915i- Books
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Hygrometrical tables : adapted to the use of the dry- and wet-bulb thermometer / by James Glaisher.
Glaisher, James, 1809-1903.Date: 1869- Books
The anemometer, the barometer, the rain gauge and the thermometer as portrayed by Charles Tomlinson / by Vernon Radcliffe.
Radcliffe, Vernon.Date: 2002- Ephemera
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DMA 58 : precision density meter with built-in thermostat and built-in precision thermometer / Anton Paar K.G.
Anton Paar (Firm)Date: 1992