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From: dcpik@ednor.UUCP (David Pikcilingis)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: metric system
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Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 12:47:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 16 12:47:43 1987
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>My high school text books had the same story, but Robert Fahrenheit was
>English.  Anybody know the real story?
>-- 

  Robert Fahrenheit may well have been English but Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
  (1686-1736) was German.  He did work in both Holland and England where
  he developed and manufactured meteorological instruments.  The temp-
  erature scale with his name was published in 1724.