But medical thermometers were clunky and over a foot long, they sometimes required more than 20 minutes to get a reading. Allbutt then invented the modern form of the clinical thermometer, making it much smaller. His new thermometers required just five minutes to take a temperature. Allbutt's design has been the dominant medical thermometer since then, even with the recent invention of electronic and infrared thermometers. Pioneering biodynamicist and flight surgeon with the Luftwaffe during WWII, Theodore Hannes Benzinger invented the ear thermometer, then David Phillips invented the infrared ear thermometer in 1984, followed by Dr. Jacob Fraden, who invented the world's best-selling ear thermometer. The Celsius temperature scale is also referred to as the "centigrade" scale. Centigrade means "consisting of or divided into 100 degrees." The Celsius scale, invented by Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius, has 100 degrees between the freezing point (0 C) and boiling point (100 C) of pure water at sea level air pressure. The term "Celsius" was adopted in 1948 by an international conference on weights and measures. .
Future Technology.
Our team visions a thermometer in twenty years to be implanted under the skin of a baby around the wrist. We see that the thermometer will be convenient and as common as circumcision on infants. The thermometer will serve as a multitask control recorder and record keeper under the skin near the wrist so that when information is needed or required, it is easy to obtain. A communications receptor will be put in the ear so that if there is important information that needs to be relayed to the individual, he can hear the information by verbal command. If the person is too young to understand the information, there is a way someone else can listen in and hear the information by verbal command. The information will consist of the body temperature of the person, the blood pressure, and heart rate.
