Postwar support from Americans reached remarkable levels - a warm 75 degrees of approval on a "thermometer scale."

In 1731 he became interested in meteorology, and invented the thermometer scale which bears his name: the Réaumur.

The thermometer used sliding colored cylinders to record maximum and minimum temperatures, and these cylinders were about 7 to 8 degrees celsius long on the thermometer scale.

In the instrument industry gambhar timber is widely employed for the manufacture of drawing boards, plane tables, instrument boxes, thermometer scales and cheaper grade metric scales.

In 1743-44, Linnaeus designed today's thermometer scale by reversing that invented by Anders Celsius; originally 100 was the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water.