Temperature

Glenn Elert

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Resources

Extreme weather
- Maximiliano Herrera
  - Extreme Temperatures Around the World
  - Extreme Temperatures in the United States
- Marvin's International Falls Thermometer. Car Talk.
- Temperature Extremes. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
- World Temperature Extremes. Perth Weather Centr.
Temperature scales
- International Temperature Scale
  - International Temperature Scale. its-90.com
- Kelvin
  - On an Absolute Thermometric Scale founded on Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat, and calculated from Regnault's Observations. Baron Kelvin of Largs. Philosophical Magazine (1848).
- Celsius
  - no resources yet
- Fahrenheit
  - Fahrenheit Temperature Scale. John Lord. sizes.com.
  - A Lesson on the Arbitrary Nature of Thermometer Scales Using the Historical Case of the Creation of the Fahrenheit Temperature Scale. Robert J. Ruhf.
- Homigrade
  - The Homigrade Thermometer. Franklin E. Aspinwall. Medical Record. Vol. 94 (1918): 281–282.
  - The Homigrade Thermometer. Franklin E. Aspinwall. Medical Review of Reviews. Vol. 28 No. 12 (1922): 584–586
  - The Homigrade thermometer explained and compared with other thermometers. Franklin E. Aspinwall (1940).
  - The Homigrade Thermometer. Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 46 No. 9 (2008): 548.
Thermometers
- History of the Thermometer, Albert Van Helden, The Galileo Project
Miscellaneous
- Absolute Zero. NOVA. PBS (2008).
  - A Sense of Scale. Written by some guy.
- The Boomerang Nebula: The Coldest Region of the Universe? Sahai Raghvendra and Lars-Åke Nyman. Astrophysical Journal. 487 (1997): L155–59.
- Martian Temperature and Pressure Profiles. Joe Twicken. Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Team.
Video on demand
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)
  - Temperature and The Gas Law. Hot discoveries about the behavior of gases make the connection between temperature and heat.
- Veritassium
  - Celsius Didn't Invent Celsius. Veritassium. YouTube (2016). Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name.