Provision is made for automatically moving the contact _q_ by electrical means and thus the complete balance of the two differential circuits is maintained constant from second to second. As the contact _q_ is moved, it carries with it a stylographic pen which travels in a straight line over a regularly moving roll of coordinate paper, thus producing a permanently recorded curve indicating the temperature differences. The slide-wire J is calibrated so that any inequalities in the temperature coefficient of the thermometer wires are equalized and also so that any unit-length on the slide-wire taken at any point along the temperature scale represents a resistance equal to the resistance change in the thermometer for that particular change in temperature. With the varying conditions to be met with in this apparatus, it is necessary that varying values should be assigned at times to J and to _r_. This necessitates the use of shunts, and the recording range of the instrument can be easily varied by simple shunting, _i. e._, by changing the resistance value of J and _r_, providing these resistances unshunted have a value which takes care of the highest obtained temperature variations. Fig. 19 shows the differential circuit complete with all its shunts. S is a fixed shunt to obtain a range on J; S' is a variable shunt to permit very slight variations of J within the range to correct errors due to changing of the initial temperatures of the thermometers; _y_ is a permanent shunt across the galvanometer coil _fl_, to make the temperature coefficients of _fl_ and _fr_ absolutely equal; Z is the variable resistance in the battery-circuit to keep the current constant; _r_ is a permanent resistance to fix the zero on varying ranges; S'' plus S_{1} constitutes a variable shunt to permit slight variations of _r_ to finally adjust 0 after S' is fixed and _t_ is a permanent shunt across the thermometer T_{1} to make the temperature coefficient of T_{1} equal to that of T_{2}. The apparatus can be used for measuring temperature differences from 0° to 4° or from 0° to 8°. When on the 0° to 8° range, the shunt S is open-circuited and the shunt S' alone used. The value of S, then, is predetermined so as to affect the value of the wire J and thus halve its influence in maintaining the balance. Similarly, when the lower range, _i. e._, from 0° to 4°, is used, the resistance _r_ is employed, and when the higher range is used another value to _r_ must be given by using a plug resistance-box, in the use of which the resistance _r_ is doubled.