Wilbur Scoville Wilbur Scoville Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (January 22, 1865 – March 10, 1942) was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure pungency, "spiciness" or "heat", of various chili peppers. Scoville was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He married Cora B. Upham on September 1, 1891 in Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts). They had two children: Amy Augusta, born August 21, 1892 and Ruth Upham, born October 21, 1897. Scoville wrote "The Art of Compounding", which
Heat flux sensor wire-wound geometry of the Schmidt-Boelter gauge can measure both perpendicular and parallel flows.In this case the sensor is mounted on a water-cooled body. Such sensors are used in fire resistance testing to put the fire to which samples are exposed to the right intensity level. There are various examples of sensors that internally use heat flux sensors examples are laser power meters, pyranometers, etc. We will discuss three large fields of application in what follows. Soil heat flux is a most important parameter in agro-meteorological studies, since it allows one to study the amount of energy stored in the soil