Daniel Fahrenheit

A Grade 9 Reading Skill Resource

Daniel Fahrenheit was an orphan who created the first accurate temperature scale. His parents were wealthy merchants. Unfortunately, when Fahrenheit was fifteen years old, both his parents died. They had eaten poisonous mushrooms, at the time a culinary hobby of those who could afford it.

This is a biography about the Polish inventor who created the first scientifically useful thermometer.

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