Practice question · Put in order
Order these milestones in the history of thermometry and thermal physics.
- Kelvin defines absolute temperature scale
- Celsius proposes the centigrade scale
- Galileo invents the first thermoscope
- International Temperature Scale (ITS-90) adopted
- Fahrenheit introduces his temperature scale
Hints
- Crude devices came first; fixed numerical scales came later.
- The absolute scale postdates the everyday ones.
Show the answer
- Galileo invents the first thermoscope
- Fahrenheit introduces his temperature scale
- Celsius proposes the centigrade scale
- Kelvin defines absolute temperature scale
- International Temperature Scale (ITS-90) adopted
Why
Galileo (c. 1592), Fahrenheit (1714), Celsius (1742), Kelvin (1848), ITS-90 (1990).
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