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Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was a German scientist. He was born in 1686 at Dantzig and died in 1736. He gave up his business and moved to Amsterdam to study natural philosophy, and there invented the mercury thermometer. He invented the Fahrenheit scale of temperature, with zero based upon the lowest point the mercury in his thermometer dropped to in the winter of 1709.
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Fahrenheit is a now mainly obsolete scale of temperature. It was invented by Gabriel Fahrenheit and used in the graduation of his thermometer. The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale, and the boiling point is at 212 degrees above.
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