Amit Kumar

Eighteenth-century thermometry had a calibration problem. Its fixed points were harder to reproduce than expected, and different thermometer designs could disagree. Then, in 1802, Gay-Lussac reported water boiling at about 101.2°C in glass and 100°C in metal. Adding iron filings to the glass vessel brought the reading to 100°C. AI evaluation is living through a compressed version of this problem. 🧵 1/10