science project belty, the radio company of the academy of sciences of belarus in the studio ekaterina gerevskayao and we are starting. thanks to galileo , we will show how the world's first thermometer number 80 looked like in the mendeleev table why the choice of the inventors of the thermometer was dug for mercury and exclusive programs will show how and where electronic thermometers are made in our country. 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, it’s only categorically impossible to call it accurate, and to track the temperature of the human body in such a way way. it's just unrealistic. to whom do we owe the appearance of the thermometer. i’ll tell you right now the idea of ​​​​inventing a device that would measure temperature arose at the end of the 16th century from the dutch scientist gaments. however , the very first thermometer designed in 1597 by galileo was very large by modern standards and was a glass tube with a spherical ending inside there was water,