Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

• 1592 — Galileo Galilei builds a crude thermometer using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube
• 1612 — Santorre Santorio puts thermometer to medical use
• 1643 — Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
• 1714 — Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury in glass thermometer
• 1821 — T.J. Seebeck invents the thermocouple
• 1864 — Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer
• 1885 — Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device
• 1892 — Henri-Louis Le Châtelier builds the first optical pyrometer

See also List of timelines.