Gunnison Gazette | 1909-02-26 | Page 2 | First Fahrenheit Thermometer

First Fahrenheit Thermometer. In the year 1714 one Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit brought to the chancellor of the University of Halle two thermometers ther-mometers which agreed so perfectly in registering temperatures that they were considered marvels. All scientists scien-tists were amazed. His method is now one of the three accepted standards. stand-ards. Fahrenheit was by birth a Prussian, but after his fifteenth year he lived a. long life in Amsterdam. His great skill in working in glass enabled en-abled him to carry out his ideas. He was an original thinker, but for commercial com-mercial reasons kept secret his methods meth-ods of manufacture for 18 years.