Mercury-in-glass thermometer the thermometer, the bulb is made to reach thermal equilibrium with a temperature standard such as an ice/water mixture, and then with another standard such as water/vapour, and the tube is divided into regular intervals between the fixed points. In principle, thermometers made of different material (e.g., coloured alcohol thermometers) might be expected to give different intermediate readings due to different expansion properties; in practice the substances used are chosen to have reasonably linear expansion characteristics as a function of true thermodynamic temperature, and so give similar results. The application of mercury (1714) and Fahrenheit scale (1724) for liquid-in-glass thermometers
Miller-Casella thermometer the ocean was always warmer than that below. Scientists aboard the HMS Challenger later questioned this assumption and made temperature measurements with reversing thermometers instead which wouldn't require the coldest water to be at the ocean's bottom. Nature article - Miller Casella thermometer Miller-Casella thermometer The Miller-Casella thermometer was a Six's thermometer with a double bulb used extensively by the "Challenger" expedition during the late nineteenth century. The thermomemeter was used for water temperature readings along 360 different research stations around the world's oceans. The thermometer, about 9 inches in length, was enclosed in a copper case and filled with