And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: May 24, 1686, 329 years ago today ... a day for temperate celebration. For that was the birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, the European physicist ...

Fahrenheit: A temperature scale (introduced by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in 1714) in which the melting point of ice is 32(degrees) and the boiling point of water is 180 degrees higher at 212(degrees).

300 years ago scientist Daniel Fahrenheit invented a temperature measurement — donning his last name. At the time, people knew it was either hot or cold, but, there was no official way to mark degrees ...

An original thermometer invented by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is set to fetch £100,000 at auction. It was thought the mercury thermometer, created in the early 1700s, had been lost in history. Prior ...

Apart from the USA, only a few countries still use the Fahrenheit temperature scale. It was invented by German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. The USA is the largest country in the world where ...

One of the original thermometers made by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit has sold for more than £67,000. The 300-year-old brass instrument is one of only three known examples of Fahrenheit’s work in ...

WARSAW, Poland – Scientists in Poland have created a computer portrait of 18th century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit using images of his relatives. Jerzy Proficz from the Gdansk University of ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- This week, scientists in Sweden celebrated one of their own. Anders Celsius would have turned 318 years old on Monday. So, we thought we'd take this chance to answer a Good ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — News of COVID-19 vaccines and deployments have taken over the headlines in recent weeks, and various numbers have been thrown at us: the efficacy, how many doses are needed, and ...