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Temperature measurements

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Images about Temperature measurements

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  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one nurse checks a patient's temperature, a second washes a black man's face. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three nurses attempting to read thermometers as a fourth writes down the results. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Works from the collections

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    Dissertations sur la chaleur, avec des observations nouvelles sur la construction et la comparaison des thermométres / par m. Martine ... ; Traduites de l'anglois par M.*** docteur en médecine [i.e. L.A. Lavirotte].

    Martine, George, 1702-1741. | Date: 1751
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    Thermometric, barometric, and other tables, for the reciprocal conversion of the numbers of the scales in more frequent use / calculated by George Atkin.

    | Date: 1837
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    Essai sur la nouvelle théorie du feu élémentaire, et de la chaleur des corps : avec la description des nouveaux thermometres, destinés particulierement aux observations sur ce sujet / par J.H. de Magellan.

    Magalhães, João Jacinto de, 1722-1790. | Date: 1780
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    Essays on the construction and graduation of thermometers, and on the heating and cooling of bodies / by George Martine ...

    | Date: MDCCXCII [1792]
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    A thermometrical table on the scales of Fahrenheit, centigrade and Reamur : comprising the most remarkable phenomena connected with temperature, in relation to climatology, physical geography, chemistry, and physiology / by Alfred S. Taylor.

    | Date: 1845

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Thermometers

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