In this interactive, create your own temperature scale by choosing fixed points of your own. Then see how your scale compares with the Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin scales.—Richard Pommier ...

and that on the whole his investigations do [not seem to prove augmentation of conductivity with temperature; and he kindly gives me, with permission to communicate to Nature, the following ...

William Thomson (who later became Lord Kelvin) suggested a thermodynamic temperature scale in which the ratio of temperatures above an 'absolute zero' would be in proportion to the heat absorbed ...