Multiple choice general knowledge

Who invented the Doctor's thermometer

  1. Fahrenheit

  2. Edison

  3. Galileo

  4. None of these
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Explanation

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer in 1714, which became the basis for the Fahrenheit temperature scale used in medicine. Edison worked on light bulbs, Galileo on thermoscopes (not clinical thermometers), and neither invented the doctor's thermometer.

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