Metric essay
Gary Derian
gderian at oh.verio.com
Mon Jun 7 17:40:46 GMT 1999
Fahrenheit sent his thermometer to a friend in Scandinavia who marked the
coldest temperature of the winter. He called that zero. He then measured
his body temperature (he must have been a bit feverish that day) and called
that 100.
Not arbitrary but close. Not alcohol either.
Gary Derian <gderian at oh.verio.com>
> >
> > 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.
>
> I'm NOT saying my wife is cold but she read 37.6 8))
>
>
> >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.
>
> Close but no cigar 0 degree f is the freezing point of acohol (sp?)
> 100F is the boiling point of acohol
>
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