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2. Six's thermometer - Wikipedia

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   Six's maximum and minimum thermometer is a registering thermometer that can record the maximum and minimum temperatures reached over a period of time, for example 24 hours. It is used to record the extremes of temperature at a location, for instance in meteorology and horticulture .

3. James Six - Wikipedia

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   James Six FRS (1731 – 25 August 1793) was a British scientist born in Canterbury.He is noted for his invention, in 1780, of Six's thermometer, commonly known as the maximum- minimum thermometer.

4. MMTS (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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   A Maximum Minimum Temperature System or MMTS is a temperature recording system that keeps track of the maximum and minimum temperatures that have occurred over some given time period. [1] The earliest, and still perhaps most familiar, form is the Maximum minimum thermometer invented by James Six in 1782. [citation needed]

5. Thermometer - Wikipedia

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   A thermometer has two important elements: (1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the pyrometric sensor in an infrared thermometer) in which some change occurs with a change in temperature; and (2) some means of converting this change into a numerical value (e.g. the visible scale that is marked on a mercury ...

6. Recording thermometer - Wikipedia

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   A recording thermometer is a type of thermometer that records temperature changes over a period of time. A digital recording thermometer is often called a temperature data logger . Analog temperature recorders

7. Mercury-in-glass thermometer - Wikipedia

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   A maximum minimum thermometer, also known as Six's thermometer, is a thermometer which registers the maximum and minimum temperatures reached over a period of time, typically 24 hours. The original design contains mercury, but solely as a way to indicate the position of a column of alcohol whose expansion indicates the temperature; it is not a ...