Fahrenheit biography
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Biography ()
- Nationality
- Dutch
- Ethnicity
- German
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- physicist
Fahrenheit invented the first truly accurate thermometer using mercury instead of alcohol and water mixtures. In the laboratory, he used his invention todevelop the first temperature scale precise enough to become a worldwide standard.
The eldest of fem children born to a wealthy merchant, Fahrenheit was in Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. When he was fifteen his parents died suddenly, and he was sent to Amsterdam to study business. Instead of pursuing this trade, Fahrenheit became interested in the growing field of scientific instruments and their construction. Sometime around he began to wander the europeisk countryside, visiting instrument makers in Germany, Denmark, and elsewhere, learning their skills. He began constructing his own thermometers in , and it was in these that he used mercury for the first time.
Previous thermometers, such as those constructed by Galileo
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Today, we invent the thermometer. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Daniel Fahrenheit, the man who put thermometry on a solid footing, was born in the Polish city of Gdansk in He was only fifteen when his parents both died from eating poisonous mushrooms. The city council put the four younger Fahrenheit children in foster homes. But they apprenticed Daniel to a merchant, who taught him bookkeeping and took him off to Amsterdam.
There he found out about thermometers. The Florentine thermometer had been invented in Italy some sixty years before. Now it showed up as a trade item in Amsterdam, and it caught young Fahrenheit's fancy. So he skipped out on his apprenticeship and borrowed against his inheritance to take up thermometer making.
When the city fathers of Gdansk found out, they arranged to have the year-old Fahrenheit arrested and shipped off t
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Physicist and engineer
Daniel Gabriel FahrenheitFRS (; German:[ˈfaːʁn̩haɪt]; 24 May – 16 September )[1] was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, born in Poland to a family of German extraction. Fahrenheit invented thermometers accurate and consistent enough to allow the comparison of temperature measurements between different observers using different instruments.[2] Fahrenheit is also credited with inventing mercury-in-glass thermometers more accurate and superior to spirit-filled thermometers at the time. The popularity of his thermometers led to the widespread adoption of his Fahrenheit scale attached to his instruments.[3]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Fahrenheit was born in Gdańsk (Danzig), then in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Fahrenheits were a German Hanse merchant family who had lived in several Hanseatic cities. Fahrenheit's great-grandfather had lived in Rostock,