More non-efi Horsepower stuff

[Stuart Baly]

>And then there was Mr. Fahrenheit.  He invented a mercury filled tube
>with some arbitrary hash marks.  In ice water the mercury column was at
>"32".  In boiling water it was at 212.  In his wife's mouth it was at 98.6
>(seriously).  It's really not all that bad.  We could be using furlongs,
>scruples and fortnights as a measurement system. <g>

I'd heard that 0 deg Fahrenheit was the freezing temperature of a saturated 
salt solution, and 100 deg Fahrenheit was the temperature of a bull's 
rectum (seriously!). Both stories would give much the same temperature 
scale, I reckon. If I was Mrs. Fahrenheit, I'd make sure I had a go at it 
before the bull did :-)

Three cheers for Lord Kelvin.

Stuart.


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             Stuart Baly (S.Baly at BoM.gov.au)
'71 Datrat 1600, '89 Kawasaki GPz900R, '81 Yamaha RD350LC
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