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Recent events make it desirable to give a little thought to the difference in the scales used to indicate temperature. It is well known that the scale in popular use in the United States marks the temperature of melting ice 32 degrees, and that of boiling water 212 degrees; while the scale of scientific men marks those temperatures 0 degrees and 100 degrees respectively. If engineering is a scientific profession, engineers may be expected to prefer the latter scale; but they actually use the former the most. The division of the interval between the fixed points into 100 parts has a superiority over that into 180, if there is any advantage in decimal reckoning. Those remarkable numbers, 212 and 32, have no peculiar thermometric virtue.
Recent events make it desirable to give a little thought to the difference in the scales used to indicate temperature. It is well known that the scale in popular use in the United States marks the temperature of melting ice 32 degrees, and that of boiling water 212 degrees; while the scale of scientific men marks those temperatures 0 degrees and 100 degrees respectively. If engineering is a scientific profession, engineers may be expected to prefer the latter scale; but they actually use the former the most. The division of the interval between the fixed points into 100 parts has a superiority over that into 180, if there is any advantage in decimal reckoning. Those remarkable numbers, 212 and 32, have no peculiar thermometric virtue.
Thermometer Scales
Brooks, Fred (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 15 ; 381-383
2021-01-01
31886-01-01 pages
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