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The first thermometer was invented after someone argued about “cold” for three hours. Measurements saved friendships.

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The thermometer developed over time, with early devices by Galileo and others in the 1600s, and Fahrenheit's mercury thermometer in the early 1700s. There is no record of it arising from a three-hour argument.

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