Gabriel Fahrenheit was born on May 14th 1686, in Danzig Germany. Danzig is now called Gdansk and is in the country of Poland. Gabriel Settled in Amsterdam in 1701 looking for a trade and became interested in the manufacture of scientific instruments. He was mainly interested in meteorological instruments. From the years 1701-1717 he spent his time wandering around Europe, meeting scientists, and other instrument makers. He stayed in the Netherlands for the rest of his life. Gabriel invented the system we use for temperature in the United States. He also constructed the first mercury in glass thermometer in 1714. At the start of the seventeenth century there was no way to measure heat. In his years of traveling Gabriel saw many thermometers being used.
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Gabriel improved upon Claus’s thermometer and in 1714 he constructed the first mercury in glass thermometer. He discovered that water could remain liquid below its freezing point and that the boiling point of liquids varies with atmospheric pressure. I!
t was an honor at that time to be admitted to the Royal Society. Guillaume Amontons improved upon the gas thermometer in 1695. These three temperatures, from lowest to highest, are equal to -18°, 0°, and 100° on the Celsius temperature scale. The second one was 32, freezing point for pure water. The first one was 0, freezing point for ice and salt water. This thermometer was a gas thermometer. Fahrenheit died in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Sept. Using his t!
hermometer, Fahrenheit measured the boiling point of various liquids. Fahrenheit determined three fixed temperatures. He was also admitted to the Royal Society the same year. Galileo constructed the first thermometers ever made around 1600. This is why he made the Fahrenheit system. We are the only country that uses the Fahrenheit system.
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