Temperature scales

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you'll hear the answer to the question about temperature scales in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius. There is interesting information about the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, the news of the listeners, the good music – and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo above and enjoy!

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This week's quiz: On May 11, I asked you a question about temperatures. You had to send the names and nationalities of the scientists who invented the two temperature scales, the Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale. I also asked you to send when the scales were invented, as well as the temperature when the two scales are identical or equal.

The answers are: For the Fahrenheit scale: the Dutch, German and Polish physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. He created his scale in 1724. The Fahrenheit scale was the first standardized temperature scale to be widely used.

For the Celsius scale: His father is Anders Celsius. Celsius developed a temperature scale similar to the one we use today, in 1742. However, its scale opposite from what we use today: 0 represents the boiling point of water, while 100 represents the freezing point of water. The Celsius scale was reversed in 1744 by his compatriot, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.

And what is the common temperature of the two scales? Less 40.

This week's winners are: Members of the RFI Listeners Club, Nasyr Muhammad, of Katsina State, Nigeria; Samuel Francis of St Catherine, Jamaica; Mohammad Akhsan from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Zenon Teles, from the Christian – Marxist – Leninist – Maoist DX – ers Association in Goa, India. Finally, Ras Franz Manko Ngogo, president of the Kemogemba RFI Club of Tarime, Mara, Tanzania.

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Here's the music you heard in this week's program: "Che Mali Wali" by Munir Bashir; traditional English dance of the 13th century interpreted by Artefactum; "Warm Camargues" by Frédéric Kooshmanian and Michel Estrade; Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Flight of the Drone" and "Come, let me take you under such a sky" written and sung by Kishore Kumar.

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