While almost the entire world uses celsius as their unit of measurement for temperature. Very few countries only use fahrenheit to measure temperature, with the largest one being the United States.
The reason the US does not use celsius is because when the country was being constructed, fahrenheit was the more popular unit of measurement. To this day, they have never switched and remain one of the few nations to remain on it.
When it comes to measuring temperature, there is more history there than you may expect. Let's dive into some of that.
Fahrenheit was created in the 1700s by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, a European physicist who was born in Poland. He proposed his scale to the government and was seeing his scale be used.
Not too long after the acceptance of fahrenheit, celsius was created and began to take over.
The creation of celsius occurred in 1742 by Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. With his scale, 0 was the freezing point of water and 100 was boiling point of water, making it a more attractive scale to much of Europe at the time of its invention.
Kelvin was created in the middle of the 1800s by a scientist named William Thomson.
Kelvin is an absolute unit of measurement for temperature. It mainly is used within the scientific community and by adjacent communities. It is not something that the average person would use to measure temperature.
Create Date: June 17, 2024
Last Modified Date: June 17, 2024
