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A Maximum Minimum thermometer, also known as Six’s thermometer after its inventor. The scales are Fahrenheit on the inside of the U and Celsius on the outside. The current temperature is 23 degrees Celsius, The maximum recorded is 25, and the minimum is 15, both read from the base of the small markers in each arm of the U tube. The bulbs are hidden by a plastic housing.

Six's thermometer is a thermometer which can measure the maximum and minimum temperature during a given time, devised by James Six in 1782. It is also known as a Maximum minimum thermometer. It is still in common use wherever a simple way is needed to measure the extremes of temperature at a location, e.g. in meteorology and horticulture.

Description

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References

• A History of the Thermometer and Its Uses in Meteorology by W. E. Knowles Middleton, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966; ISBN 0-8018-7153-0

• The Construction of a Thermometer by James Six, Nimbus Publishing Ltd,1980; ISBN 0-9507036-0-5

External links

• Article on Six thermometer at the Museum of the History of Science at Florence , Italy
• Explanation of the working of Six's thermometer