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The Three Temperature Scales

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1 The Three Temperature Scales
Anders Celsius Lord Kelvin Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

2 Early Thermometers The first thermometers were called thermoscopes
Galileo Galilei, 1593, early water thermometer Italian inventor Santorio Santorio was the first inventor to put numbers on thermometers 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit: first mercury thermometer- what we still use!

3 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German Physicist 1709- invented alcohol thermometer 1724, introduced the Fahrenheit temperature scale

4 Anders Celsius Celsius temperature scale aka: "centigrade" scale.
Centigrade means divided into 100 This scale has 100 degrees between freezing point of water and boiling point of water

5 Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Invented Kelvin Scale- 1848 Measures extremes of hot and cold 0 degrees Kelvin= absolute zero

6 what do you already know on the next diagram?
See how many we can guess, and then try some conversions!

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8 spare graphic for later, for now this is a duplicate graphic already used in brendans smart notebook file for this lesson


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