thermometers

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But as it turns out, the drone thermometers were detecting the temperatures only on the outside of the problem tank, not its inside.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Two people in the area fainted as thermometers showed the temperature hitting 97 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

As the UK's national weather service, the Met Office is the custodian of the Central England Temperature record, the longest running weather record in the world, based on measurements taken using thermometers and other instruments.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

The outage in that state on Tuesday came during a heat wave in the Northeast that shot thermometers up above 90 degrees in Boston.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

Telescopes and thermometers do not change the world around them as saws and hammers do, but they change our awareness of the world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton