Evolution of the thermometer
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1901, 1901
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Introduction: From the earliest dawn of science, till the eighteenth century two theories of heat were prevalent. By one known as the calorie theory, heat was supposed to be a subtle elastic fluid, which passed through and filled the spaces between the molecules of matter. The other, which comes from the ancient Greeks and has in it the germ of the modern theory, supposed heat to be due to a rapid vibration of the molecules…
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Citation: Wagner, Carrie. Evolution of the thermometer. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1901.
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Thermometers, Temperature, Heat, Handwritten, Graduating theses, Senior theses