Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

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 standard medical thermometer. Galileo created an earlier thermoscope, but not the modern mercury-based medical thermometer.

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