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In article <1993Jan12.030855.26809@netcom.com>, mcp@netcom.com (Craig Presnell) writes:
|> An interesting historical question came up in physics class
|> today concerning the determination of the Farenheit temperature
|> scale. The celsius scale was determined by making 0 degrees the
|> same as freezing water, and 100 degrees equal to boiling water and
|> equally dividing the points in between. Apparently Farenheit had the
|> same idea, but wanted something colder to be 0 degress, so alcohol
|> and ice were used. The question is, what was used to determine the
|> upper end of the scale ?

The low was the lowest he could achieve in his lab.  The high was the
blood temperature of a horse.

Presumably the horse had to come into his lab, too, which raises
questions about the reliability of _all_ his measurements, imho.

No wonder the world (ex USA) is going over to use of Celsius' scale.
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