EAGLE COUNTY – Mercury is dangerous stuff if allowed to roam free. This month in Eagle County is dedicated to rounding up as much of the stuff as possible before it does any damage.Local fire stations ...

Someone has scored a bargain at Heritage Auctions’ recent Historical Platinum Session Signature Auction and we’re quite astonished that in this age of information, such anomalies can still happen. On ...

For decades, mothers checked their children for fevers by using a fragile glass stick filled with a silvery liquid. Formerly a medicine-cabinet staple, these mercury thermometers have lately been ...

Oberursel, Germany, November 3, 2010 -- Messko, a division of Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH, has long been known for its reliable and long-lasting products. In late 2009, this claim became a proven ...

In the early 1900s, thermometers were a popular advertising give-away. There were no newscasts reporting on the weather, so it was handy for people to check the temperature on a thermometer before ...

WESTPORT -- Mercury rose in old-style thermometers to indicate a fever. Today thermometers measure the body's temperature digitally. That leaves many a household in a quandary as to what to do with ...

Earlier this week, an indoor/outdoor thermometer that had supplied the daily highs and lows for more than 30 years finally gave it up. It was so old (HOW OLD WAS IT ...

WYOMING, MI - In the drug take-back day at Metro Health on Saturday, a record 4.4 pounds of mercury in old thermometers and electrical components was turned in, along with 432 pounds of prescription ...

As much as we’d like to have the right tools for the right job all of the time, sometimes our parts drawers have other things in mind. After all, what’s better than buying a new tool than building one ...

Infrared thermometers that take a person's temperature with a sweep of the forehead may not be as accurate as old-fashioned measures, a study suggests. The devices, known as temporal thermometers or ...