A  Science and Technology Odyssey In Cyberspace-Time 
20000 BC to 1800 AD
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
 (1714)

In 1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit built mercury thermometer with the scale named after him.

"It then came into my mind what that most careful observer of natural phenomena had written about the correction of the barometer; for he had observed that the height of the column of mercury in the barometer was a little (though sensibly enough) altered by the varying temperature of the mercury. From this I gathered that a thermometer might perhaps be constructed with mercury, which would not be so hard to construct, and by the use of which it might be possible to carry out the experiment which I so greatly desired to try."

Marie Curie's Search for Radium (Science...

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