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It was one of Daniel Fahrenheit's most famous inventions. Now, after nearly 300 years as a household fixture, the mercury glass thermometer is bound for the museum. The Canadian government announced ...

Measuring your body temperature with a glass thermometer is pretty handy, but making the instruments is not easy. A finished mercury-in-glass thermometer requires at least 25 intricate steps including ...

BALTIMORE — It was one of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit’s most famous inventions, in 1714. Now, after nearly 300 years on the market, the still-common mercury thermometer appears headed for extinction.

Thermometers can provide you with important information when you get sick (or a loved one does). When a fever comes and goes can dictate when you can return to work or school, and the level of fever ...

Galileo's thermometer is a sealed liquid-filled glass cylinder containing sealed glass floats (in this case, labelled 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 26 degrees C). The ...

When your child is sick, monitoring fever symptoms becomes something like a part-time job. And when you’re checking and rechecking (and rechecking . . .) your little one’s temperature, the right ...