In this video, we see him making a fully mechanical chime-ringing tea-temperature indicator – something we’d be tempted to do in silicon, but that’s admittedly pedestrian in comparison.

Infinite switches are little more than a resistor and a bimetallic strip in a single package. Not very good for accurate temperature control.

THE British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., has sent us specimens of a new bimetallic strip for use in thermostatically controlled devices. The strip is prepared by the permanent union over their ...

A thermostatic metal bar (or bimetallic strip) is used to sense temperature changes and move accordingly. The bar would essentially move one way when the temperature dropped, and another when the ...

To track that, the first Toshiba rice cookers used a bimetallic strip that senses when the pot surpasses 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the boiling point of water, and turns off the machine.