Almanac: Fahrenheit's birthday

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Channel: CBS Sunday Morning · 2015 · News & Politics

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On May 24th, 1686, European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who used purified mercury to create the first modern thermometer, was born. Charles Osgood reports.

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