Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

When watching NOVA: Absolute Zero I found the story of Gabriel Fahrenheit particularly interesting. He is noted for making thermometers with mercury and marking them with particularly useful temperatures such as the cool mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride (0 °F), the freezing of water (32 °F), and the average temperature of the human body (96°F) thus making the Fahrenheit scale. Another feature of Fahrenheit's thermometers is that they were a much more practical size and much more accurate all this was because he used mercury rather than alcohol. These accomplishments dub him the originator of the era of precision thermometry.

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