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Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit

Gabriel was born in Danzig on May 14, 1686. After the unfortunate death of both his parents on the same day in 1701, he became an apprentice to a shopkeeper in Amsterdam. After his apprenticeship he studied physics and became a glassblower and instrument maker. He died on September 16, 1736.
Fahrenheit was a Dutch instrument maker, who made a temperature scale named after him. Also he constructed the first mercury thermometer in 1714. His first interests in thermometers began from a meeting in 1708 with Ole Romer, who had devised several temperature scales. Fahrenheit experimented with a modified form of one of these before he finally produced his own scale. This scale had two fixed points representing the temperatures of melting ice, 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and of the health human body, 96 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the scale, water boiled at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, but this temperature became the upper fixed point on the scale after......

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