1. I wonder if the OP is thinking of mercury barometers rather than thermometers? 2. The first set of experiments relates to determining air pressure with mercury barometers . 3. Parrot measured the elevation at using a mercury barometer . 4. This experiment resulted in the first mercury barometer and created a scientific sensation in Europe. 5. The mercury barometer stood lower the higher one went. 6. Evangelista Torricelli's mercury barometer of 1643 and Blaise Pascal's experiments both demonstrated a partial vacuum. 7. In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli invented the mercury barometer . 8. Evangelista Torricelli ( 1607 1647 ) was best known for his invention of the mercury barometer . 9. "' Cox's timepiece "'is a clock developed in the 1760s by mercury barometer , this is not the case. 10. Prior to the invention of the mercury barometer , it was very difficult to gather numerical data of any predictive value.