In fact, the Fahrenheit scale is an old Dutch scale. Fahrenheit lived in The Netherlands for years and he developed his scale partly in Danzig, partly here and it was linked to the scale from the Danish scientist Ole Roemer. One of his surviving thermometers is in working order in the scientific museum in Delft. Germany and Austria did not use it, they used Reaumur. Fahrenheit was used in the Netherlands. When my parents married in 1947, there were still some thermometers which showed a temperature 'above 100 degrees' on that day in June; they married in the middle of a scorching summer. Now it is dead; its last stand was in chicken breeding where temperatures in breeding machines have been measured in degrees Fahrenheit until very recently.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis JOURDAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-08-19 18:37 Subject: [USMA:21810] Re: "English" and "French" units? At 11:56 +0100 18/08/2002, Markus Kuhn wrote: Curious, the kilogram, meter and Amp�re seem to be the only SI base units developed in France. Fahrenheit is an old German temperature scale, whereas the Celsius scale originated in Sweden. <snip>
