What the Fahrenheit?!

The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries. Check out Audible: Snatoms are available again! Support Veritasium on Patreon: Celsius didn’t invent Celsius: Video animated by Marcello Ascani: Thanks to Patreon supporters: Nathan Hansen, Bryan Baker, Donal Botkin, Tony Fadell, Saeed Alghamdi Music by Kevin MacLeod: “Modern Piano Zeta - Improbable“ “Ice Demon“ “Divertimento K131“ “Sneaky Adventure“ “Sheep May Safely Graze“ “Professor and the Plant“ References: A History of the Thermometer and its uses in Meteorology by W. E. Knowles Middleton Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold by Tom Shachtman The Science of Measurement, A Historical Survey by Herbert Arthur Klein Lehrbuch der Chemie by J&