science project, the belts, the radio company of the academy of sciences of belarus studio ekaterina berevskaya. hello and we are starting. thanks to galileo, we will show how the world's first thermometer number 80 looked in the mendeleev table why the choice of the inventors of the thermometer fell precisely on mercury and exclusive programs will show how and where electronic devices are made in our country thermometers? before the appearance of a thermometer in a person’s life, his role was played by the hand of the familiar truth, which means that this folk method is still alive. here, only it is categorically impossible to call it accurate, and to track the temperature of a person’s body in dynamics in this way. it's just unrealistic. to whom we owe the appearance of a thermometer right now. the idea to invent a device that would measure temperature arose at the end of the 16th century from the dutch scientist van geymant. however, the very first thermometer was designed in 1597 in the year of galileo, the device was very large by modern standards and was a glass tube with a spherical end