Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Who was inventor of "thermometer"

  1. James Gregory

  2. Benjamin Franklin

  3. Galileo Galilei

  4. Robert Hutchings Goddard
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Explanation

Galileo Galilei invented the thermoscope, an early prototype of the thermometer, around 1593. His device used the expansion and contraction of air to show temperature changes. James Gregory was a mathematician/astronomer, Benjamin Franklin was a statesman/scientist who studied electricity, and Robert Hutchings Goddard was a rocket pioneer.

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