What Do We Mean by Fahrenheit?
The name Fahrenheit is used to distinguish the kind of scale most commonly used on thermometers in Great Britain and the United States. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, a native of Dantzic, made the first thermometer on which this scale was used, and it is named after him. In this scale for thermometers the space between the freezing point and the boiling point is divided into 180 degrees—the point for freezing being marked 32 degrees and the boiling point 212 degrees.