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The Fahrenheit scale (/ ˈ f æ r ə n h aɪ t, ˈ f ɑː r-/) is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). [1] It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F) as the unit.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (/ ˈ f ær ə n h aɪ t /; German: [ˈfaːʁn̩haɪt]; 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) [1] was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, born in Poland to a family of German extraction.
One account suggests that Daniel Fahrenheit chose his coldest point from measuring a solution of equal parts ice and ammonium salt, called brine, and marked that as zero degrees. His next point of reference came from the melting point of pure ice, which he marked at 30 degrees.
The Fahrenheit scale was devised by German scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1724 and, in 1742, a Swedish astronomer named Andres Celsius came up with a less unwieldy system based on multiples of 10, which is the system used today in most of the world.
The Fahrenheit scale, which measures temperature, was created by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), a German-Dutch scientist, in 1724. He devoted much of his life’s work to the measurement of temperature, and also invented the alcohol and mercury thermometers.
The Fahrenheit temperature scale is a scale based on 32 degrees for the freezing point of water and 212 degrees for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. It was developed by the 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a Polish-born Dutch physicist and maker of scientific instruments. He is best known for inventing the mercury thermometer (1714) and developing the Fahrenheit temperature scale (1724), which is still commonly used in the United States.
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, inventor of the mercury thermometer and the Fahrenheit temperature scale. The teenage Fahrenheit, to his guardians’ irritation, threw himself into the challenge of developing a precision thermometer that would be reliable everywhere—and he needed money to do it.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was the German physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709 and the mercury thermometer in 1714. In 1724, he introduced the standard temperature scale that bears his name—Fahrenheit scale—that was used to record changes in temperature in an accurate fashion.
On May 24, 1686, Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born. He is is best known for his invention of the mercury-in-glass thermometer in 1714, and for developing a temperature scale that is now named after him.