Metric essay

[BUTLER, Tom]

Not so...If memory serves, the zero point was set by the freezing point of a
saturated salt solution.
Tom Butler

> When Mr. Fahrenheit invented the thermometer, he had marked some arbitrary
> scale on it.  When he placed it into icewater, it read 32.  When he placed
> it in his wife's mouth, it read 98.7.  When he placed it into boiling
> water, it read 212.  It has nothing to do with feeling hot or cold.  The
> scale is entirely arbitrary.
> 
> Ken
> :-)