Metric essay

[Gary Derian]

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
>