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- It is amazingly accurate
- It sits in our living room and lets us know the room temperature
- It is at least 50 years old
- I bought it for 10 cents 35 years ago
- It is so reliable, I use its readings for monitoring Global Warming
- It is Made in Japan !
The labelled and weighted glass floats successively sink as the temperature increases and the density of the tube fluid decreases.
Galileo did not invent it. That honour goes to the Accademia del Cimento, a research organization in Florence from 1657 to 1667 under the leadership of Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Galileo died in 1642,
Much used in the last two and a half years and exactly the same size as this older one in comments. HMM!
Gesamtlänge 13 cm, Breite 4 cm
Zu sehen sind etwa 6-7 cm
Analogue wood thermometer
Für "Macro Mondays"
Thema "Leading Lines" am 23.08.2021.
A "Happy Macro Monday"
and a good start into the new week.
Stay safe/Bleibt gesund! 🌸
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Macro Mondays - Back Lit
Happy Macro Monday everyone.
I held my Galileo thermometer up to the sun and went click. The gold tags are just under 1cm and the width of the thermometer is 2 inches.
For Macro Mondays theme "kitchen", this is the thermometer I usually use to see if something is done (beef, chicken, and pork in the oven, mostly). This is not the greatest thermometer, although it is accurately showing the air temperature on the patio table I'm using as a studio. But it works, and is relatively inexpensive - I keep managing to lose them (somewhere, they are keeping some odd socks company). The image is about 1.75 inches wide - it is not a large item.
I realize that for Marilyn, this is a balmy spring day on the ranch. But I like to enjoy what little cool weather we do get here in the South. This is MY kind of weather, 16 degrees!
Yeah... another gacha available at Kinky Event
Funny Thermometers with text.
Press the button and check your "fever"!
(rest it by double buttons)
Let's collect all...
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(skin applier [Avenge] Melania skin for Catwa)
A popular spot in Death Valley National Park is a high prominence known as Dante’s View. It is named for Dante Alighieri, author of Divina Commedia (The Devine Comedy). This seems rather fitting as, while it is beautiful, you can probably find plenty of the circles of Hell in Death Valley, especially in summer. On this evening standing at the edge of the 5600 foot elevation and looking over Badwater Basin which is nearly 300 feet below sea level I wasn’t hot, I was darn near hypothermic as I wasn’t really dressed to be there. My car thermometer said it was just over 40 degrees Fahrenheit but that does no justice to the insane winds that are created in such a radical elevation change. I had no way to measure but I guarantee some of the gusts were over 30mph and felt like they blew right through the thin hiking pants I was wearing – just an hour earlier I was sweating in those pants and only a tee shirt on the valley floor.
At least my suffering was rewarded with some beautiful color in the moody sky as the sun dropped over the Panamint Range to the west (camera left).
Thermoscope invented by Galileo Galilei in the early 1600s.
A brief on the science behind it:
Archimedes’ Principle: Objects float or sink depending on whether they are less or denser than the fluid they’re in.
Liquid Density: The clear liquid inside the thermoscope expands slightly as it warms, making it less dense. When it cools, it contracts and becomes denser.
Calibrated Bulbs: Each colored glass bulb has a small metal tag with a specific weight. These weights are carefully chosen so that at certain temperatures, the buoyant force matches the bulb’s weight.
The COVID testers. Probably the two most useful instruments to test for any illness. The oximeter is a fairly new type of instrument for domestic use. The glass thermometer photographed here is the one my mother used, (placed under my tongue) when I was a child in the 1950's.
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Happy Macro Mondays to you all!
The Macro Monday theme this week is "Two" This is two orbs in a Galileo Thermometer that haven't risen to the top. Approx. 70deg. HMM
Uploaded for the Saturday theme #numbers in The Flickr Lounge .
Photographed at Randfontein in South Africa.
Using the Tamron SP AF 60mm f/2 Di II MACRO 1:1 LD (IF) (model G005N II) lens.
I shoot full manual in Raw and edit in GIMP.
Critique is welcomed.
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My great aunt used to have two of these. I really liked them when I was a kid. I still do! Their design is similar to the Honeywell oil furnace thermostats still used in many homes today. My uncle kept them and gave me the white one tonight. I didn't know somebody in the family had kept these when my great aunt passed away. Strangely, I thought about this thermometer that I haven't seen in since years earlier this week!