05/14/2026
Born on May 14, 1686, Gabriel Fahrenheit would be 340 years old today! Fahrenheit is most famous for developing his Fahrenheit Scale which measures temperature based on three fixed points: 0 was the temperature of salt water ice bath, 32 was the point at which water freezes, and 96 was the temperature of a human body.
Explore what it means to be hot and cold, and how the body reacts to those changes, in "Too Hot! Too Cold!" on TumbleBooks Library. You can find it on our website www.flemingcountypubliclibrary.org