Thermometer
Invention and innovation • 17th century
Coming to Wonder Inventions on 28 October 2026.
About this story
- Subject
- Thermometer
- Category
- Medical and Health Inventions
- Where
- Global
- When
- Classical medicine to modern biomedicine
- Length
- 10 illustrated pages · about 15 minutes to read · about 11 minutes to listen
Who appears
- Dr. Alistair Finch — Early physician
- Elara Vance — Medical assistant/scholar
- Galileo Galilei — Inventor of the thermoscope (mentioned)
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Physicist and instrument maker
- Tobias — Fahrenheit's apprentice/journeyman
- Madame Dubois — Visiting dignitary
What happens on 28 October 2026
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