How do thermometers work and how do they calculate what “it feels like.”

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Checking my phone for the temperature, I see that its currently 91 degrees but it feels like 99. Got me wondering how thermometers work/how they came to be and how they calculate “what it feels like.”

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for digital thermometers:

some materials change their conductivity based on temperature, so forcing electricity to flow through this material and seeing how that electricity changes tells you the temperature the material is experiencing.

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