Gabriel Fahrenheit
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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ hermometer, Fahrenheit measured the boiling point of various liquids. He found that each liquid had a characteristic boiling point, which changed with changes in atmospheric pressure. Fahrenheit died in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Sept. 16, 1736. Galileo constructed the first thermometers ever made around 1600. This thermometer was a gas thermometer. The expansion and contraction of air raised or lowered a column of water in the thermometer. This thermometer was in! t was an honor at that time to be admitted to the Royal Society. Gabriel was not only known for inventing this thermometer, he crafted a pumping device for draining the Dutch polders and a hygrometer, for measuring atmospheric
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