In 1867 Thomas Allbutt invented one of these instruments which took 5 minutes to register instead of 20
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Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt | British physician and inventor ...  English physician, the inventor of the short clinical thermometer. ... July 20, 1836 ... Learn More in these related articles: ... and inventor Charles Babbage, who in 1847 developed an instrument. ... It was initially 25.4 cm (10 inches) long and took five minutes to register a temperature ... 1 Reference found in Britannica Articles.
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Medical thermometer - Wikipedia  A medical thermometer, also known as a daddy thermometer is used for measuring human ... Between 1866-1867, Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (18361925) designed a ... six inches long and taking only five minutes to record a patient's temperature. ... For example, one study found that the clinical bias of rectal temperatures...
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When the thermometer entered clinical practice  May 31, 2016 ... [1] Indeed, Allbutt's thermometer was a 6 inch portable instrument which gave reliable readings in 5 minutes, and which looks very familiar and modern (see below) [2]. ... [1] http://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Clifford-Allbutt ... /media/Booking-Form/Jamie%20Stark/Allbutt-Thermometer.pdf  thermo.
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jeopardy/1045_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  TELEPHONE HISTORY | As of July 1, 1968 you could dial this 3-digit number in New York .... MEDICAL MILESTONES | In 1867 Thomas Allbutt invented one of these instruments which took 5 minutes to register instead of 20 | a thermometer.
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Roots: Recording Industry (Part 1) - West Virginia University | Coursera  As their company names imply, they used three different types of recording and ... based phonograph (developed by Thomas Edison), a cylinder based graphophone ... but to pay money for it and take one home, and have its huge horn become a .... Though the Big Three - Edison, Columbia, and Victor - led the market for a...
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Cash register - Wikipedia  A cash register, also referred to as a Till in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth ... An early mechanical cash register was invented by James Ritty and John ... The Ritty Model I was invented in 1879 after seeing a tool that counted the ... The employee was required to ring up every transaction on the register, and...
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Tinfoil Phonograph - The Edison Papers  In July 1877, while developing his telephone transmitter, Edison conceived the idea of ... The first phonograph consisted of grooved cylinder mounted on a long shaft with a screw pitch of ten threads per inch and turned by a hand crank. ... of tones and overtones necessary to reproduce human speech had devised complex...
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Timeline - Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 - Duke ...  1851 - I. M. Singer and Company takes out its first patent for the Singer ... 33,000 patents are issued between 1850 - 1860; only 6,000 patents had been issued in the ... and the following year begins advertising its own agency in both general and .... 1901 - Henry Ford defeats Alexander Winton (the winner of an earlier road...
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Timeline 1831-1840 - Timelines of History  1831 Feb 25, The Polish army halted the Russian advance into their country at the ... 1831 Aug 10, William Driver of Salem, Massachusetts, was the first to use the term ..... 1832 Oct 4, William Griggs, inventor (photo chromo lithography), was born. ...... 1838 Oct 25, Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, French composer...
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J! Archive - Show #5174, aired 2007-02-22  In 1849 & 1850, at least 80,000 people rushed to this state ... a standard symphony orchestra, it's the closest to the size of the person playing it...
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Patent US174465 - Improvement in telegraphy - Google Patents  17!,65, dated March 7, 1876; application filed February 14, 1876. ... in Teiiia'graphy, of which the following is a specifica- In-Letters Patent granted to me April 6, 1875, No. ..... The method of; and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds...
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An error occurred. - O'Connor Music Studio  He established the guitar as a serious classical instrument through his numerous concerts and by ... 1809 ~ John "Christmas" Beckwith, Composer, died at the age of 58 ..... 1900 ~ Fred Waring, Musician, conductor and inventor of the Waring Blender ... 1924 ~ Jelly-Roll Blues was recorded by blues great, Jelly Roll Morton...
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Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia  A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, was a mechanical device used to perform ... The first one was an automatic mechanical calculator, his difference engine, ... as it saw the invention of its first machines, including Pascal's calculator, in 1642. .... In 1673, the French clockmaker Ren Grillet described in Curiositez...
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Thomas Edison - Wikipedia  Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847  October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, ..... In 187778, Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver until the 1980s.