Indeed, “any scale, including Fahrenheit or Celsius or even Réaumur, can be linked to the metric system with equal ease,” wrote Eric Pinder, author of Tying Down the Wind: Adventures in the ...

Many engineering fields in the U.S., especially high-tech ones, also use the kelvin and degrees Celsius scales. However, the United States is the last major country in which the degree Fahrenheit ...

Building a thermometer is a matter of precise technology—putting just the right amount of mercury into a specially designed glass tube, for instance—but determining which numbers to use on the ...

“In some ways, we were the trial horse.” Temperature went first. Fahrenheit changed to Celsius overnight, or as some called it, Centigrade. Of course, given the date, many wondered if it was an April ...