How Many Calories You Spent by Reading This Post?

The present invention is intended to provide a calorimeter for converting a quite small amount of heat into an electrical signal, especially a radiation detector providing improved energy resolution and count rate, by using a superconducting transition edge. The calorimeter has an absorber for absorbing radiation and producing heat. This absorber is formed on a resistor whose resistance value is varied by the heat. The resistor is formed on a membrane that controls escape of the heat. The calorimeter is characterized in that it is further fitted with a heat dissipation device for letting active electrons produced in the calorimeter escape to the outside. 

Hadron calorimeter

Detector for hadrons, measuring their energy by checking the intensity of secondary particle bursts they cause as they pass through stainless steel with scintilating tiles between.

United States Application US20030043879

Temperature Can be Seen!

A thermometer adapted to be subjected to temperatures above the normal reading temperature range thereof without adversely affecting the accuracy of the thermometer in subsequent use thereof at the reading temperatures. The thermometer is adapted for use as a clinical thermometer having a normal reading temperature range of below 100°F. and is constructed to provided such maintained accuracy notwithstanding subjection of the thermometer to elevated temperatures such as 140°F. or more.

United States Patent US3938388