Indeed, “any scale, including Fahrenheit or Celsius or even Réaumur, can be linked to the metric system with equal ease,” wrote Eric Pinder, author of Tying Down the Wind: Adventures in the ...

Apart from the USA, only a few countries still use the Fahrenheit temperature scale. It was invented by German physicist ...

By the dawn of the 20th century, voices clamoured to abandon Fahrenheit entirely, favouring Celsius. By the 1980s, 'Celsius' replaced 'Centigrade', which makes him seal the scale's legacy.

Building a thermometer is a matter of precise technology—putting just the right amount of mercury into a specially designed glass tube, for instance—but determining which numbers to use on the ...

This journey actually started in 1742, when astronomer and geographer Anders Celsius proposed a simpler scale than that of Daniel Fahrenheit, which had been used as the standard unit of ...