Explanatory notes
… after the inventor (e.g., Baumé, Brix, Balling, Bates, Gay‑Lussac, Richter, Tralle, Sikes, Stoppani, etc.). … these thermometers the expansible medium (liquids, vapours, gases) develops a pressure and actuates a Bourdon tube or … the atmospheric pressure; similar instruments (pressure gauges) for measuring the pressure of liquids or gases are …