Ooh, ooh, I'll pick the middle one, it goes from zero freezing to 100 boiling.
The other two are all over the place, Frankenheight has freezing at 32 (I think, its been a long time since we used it) and boiling at ? 212 ?
Kelvinator, which is a brand of fridge in Australia and New Zealand keeps food at 4ยบ
Back before 1976 we used imperial measurements, I was a builder back then, worked on the Beehive, a building which is the seat of government for New Zealand, measuring in 1/8ths and 1/16th of an inch was cumbersome and taxing. Shifting to metric on December 14th, 1976 was like having the condensation wiped off your window, all of a sudden measuring things became as easy as counting money, and, my brain at least, was released from endless working out of fractions and misaligned terms of scale ... 12 inches to a foot yet only 3 feet to a yard, something like 1756 yards to a mile, 22 links to a chain, 6 feet to a furlong. I had to learn all those to qualify as a builder. Trust me, you really should adopt the metric system if you work with wood or cloth, or anything.
Yes, Celsius makes perfect sense when talking about water. Yes. Kelvin makes perfect sense when talking about scientific data. Neither makes any sense when talking about real life. xoxoxoBruce
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You can thank the Dutch for Fahrenheit.
Ooh, ooh, I'll pick the middle one, it goes from zero freezing to 100 boiling.
The other two are all over the place, Frankenheight has freezing at 32 (I think, its been a long time since we used it) and boiling at ? 212 ?
Kelvinator, which is a brand of fridge in Australia and New Zealand keeps food at 4ยบ
Back before 1976 we used imperial measurements, I was a builder back then, worked on the Beehive, a building which is the seat of government for New Zealand, measuring in 1/8ths and 1/16th of an inch was cumbersome and taxing.
Shifting to metric on December 14th, 1976 was like having the condensation wiped off your window, all of a sudden measuring things became as easy as counting money, and, my brain at least, was released from endless working out of fractions and misaligned terms of scale ... 12 inches to a foot yet only 3 feet to a yard, something like 1756 yards to a mile, 22 links to a chain, 6 feet to a furlong. I had to learn all those to qualify as a builder. Trust me, you really should adopt the metric system if you work with wood or cloth, or anything.
Yes, Celsius makes perfect sense when talking about water.
Yes. Kelvin makes perfect sense when talking about scientific data.
Neither makes any sense when talking about real life.
xoxoxoBruce
I think the US is reluctant to switch to metric because a lot of them would be in hot water until they got used to it :P
What, no Rankin?
And is Kelvin so poorly regarded that it was denied the degree symbols? I call it discrimination.
Kelvin is very useful in chemistry
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