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The Galileo Thermometer is comprised of multiple glass spheres each filled with a colored liquid mixture which often contains alcohol but can even be simply water with food coloring added. These floating balls sink or float inside the surrounding water over time and temperature ever so slowly and gracefully.
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Saw Ken's pic from yesterday and I'd forgotten it was Galileo's birthday. And as I have a thermometer on my desk gathering dust, I thought this would do for the 365 treasure hunt, number 22 dust :)
Anyways, I've just given it it's annual dusting.
This is a working thermometer based on what Galileo built. There's a lot of YouTube stuff on how it works, so, basically, you read the temperature by looking at the tag on the glass ball floating in the center -- the blue one in this shot. The tag on that one says it's 70 degrees. (Nicknacks DSC_0226.jpg)
Time has not been kind to the garden of the central Kansas house where I lived for about six months in each of the years 1965, 1966 and 1967.
The central photo is from one of those online real estate enterprises. I imagine it is fairly recent. The pictures on the other side are from the spring of 1967, or 56 years ago.
Gone is the spirea hedge that dazzled me with its flowers during my first spring outside the tropics. It used to grow on the left side of the lot as seen in this photo.
The stately blue spruce that graced the corner of the house is just a memory. It grew to the left of the double window on the left end of the house.
Dutch Elm Disease claimed the tree canopies that shaded the lawn and hosted the droning cicadas that made the hot Kansas summer afternoons seem even longer and more soporific.
One of the sensory pleasures of July and August was the cedar-like perfume that wafted from the juniper bush next to the front steps when the mercury in the thermometer passed the 80-degree mark. It exists only in memory now.
Of the tall wooden fence and its dense curtain of vines with green grapes that never grew larger than BBs and shielded the house from the elementary school next door where I attended 5th and half of 6th grade, no trace remains.
The same is true for the flower bed at base of that fence that rewarded this budding gardener with a succession of flowers right out of every grandmother's prairie garden: crocuses, daffodils, tulips, grape hyacinths, lilies of the valley, columbines, violets, old peonies, irises, delphinium, larkspur and hollyhock.
A passer-by would never know that well tended beds of tea roses once occupied both corners of the yard in the foreground or that climbing roses used to cover a trellis on the garage.
Of all the plants in the garden none were dearer to me than the bower of lilacs behind the garage that straddled the property line. No lilac since has had as exquisite a perfume.
It was under the lilacs that Julie, a tomboy who lived two doors down, and I played with troll dolls and discussed the relative merits of the Monkees versus the Beatles.
That was also where I was dealt my one and only punch in the nose by a bigger kid my age for standing up to him when he threatened to hurt the kitten he was holding. The cat skedaddled and I ran home in tears.
To be fair, the dead-looking lawn is just what Midwestern lawns look like during the winter.
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This is a very clever thermometer. Today was in the 70's here in Central Upstate, NY.
Not hazardous in this form, but once broken these spill liquid mercury, definitely a hazardous substance.
Taken for Macro Mondays "Hazard"
ive ben under the weather all week with a bad infection so when i got up to creating, i made what i wish my thermometer had been saying haha! and some i hope it never tells me! i thought they were funny and cute hehe
heres the taxi; maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Planet29/192/144/23
I caught a reflection of the thermometer in the window and thought I'd like to revisit the colors and bokeh.
This is called a Galileo thermometer. Each glass bubble has a tag with a temp. printed on it. The lowest one that's floating at the top of the tube tells the temperature, in this case 76 degrees. They are marked in increments of 4 degrees, so it's not very precise. I'm not even sure it's very accurate, but it certainly is decorative!
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #6.
A thermometer at the corner of Broadway and Reade Street in lower Manhattan advertising The Sun, which was a daily newspaper that was published from 1833 to 1950.
Although the casing dates to 1917 when The Sun moved into a former department store it originally housed a clock. The thermometer is a very recent addition.
Yesterday was our hottest ever. This was at my place at 1.30 pm. Thunderstorms are due to freshen things up!
The temperature dial on my oven is off considerably. I'm using a calibrated oven thermometer today and hope today's results will be a bit better than earlier this week.
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The thermometer I get used to use in the laboratory for the biological assays..
It is placed on my sofa..