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40-532: Bailey-Estes House is a historic home located at Wake Forest , Wake County, North Carolina . It was built about 1864, and is a two-story, frame I-house , with a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story rear kitchen ell added about 1880. It has a side gable roof and three single-shoulder, stuccoed stone chimneys. Also on the property is a contributing family cemetery . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. This article about
80-513: A eutectic system , which stabilizes its temperature automatically: 0 °F was defined to be that stable temperature. A second point, 96 degrees, was approximately the human body's temperature. A third point, 32 degrees, was marked as being the temperature of ice and water "without the aforementioned salts". According to a German story, Fahrenheit actually chose the lowest air temperature measured in his hometown Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland ) in winter 1708–09 as 0 °F, and only later had
120-587: A property in Wake County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wake Forest, North Carolina Wake Forest is a town in Wake and Franklin counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina . Located almost entirely in Wake County, it lies just north of the state capital, Raleigh . At the 2020 census , the population
160-571: A branch in Wake Forest. Wake Forest is home to the Falls Lake State Recreation Area . Falls Lake Park contains the 12,000-acre (49 km ) Falls Lake and 26,000 acres (110 km ) of woodlands. Wake Forest is served by ten parks and community centers. They include the following: Wake Forest operates under the council–manager form of government. The citizens elect a mayor and board of commissioners as
200-513: A degree on the Fahrenheit scale was 1 ⁄ 180 of the interval between the freezing point and the boiling point. On the Celsius scale, the freezing and boiling points of water were originally defined to be 100 degrees apart. A temperature interval of 1 °F was equal to an interval of 5 ⁄ 9 degrees Celsius. With the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales now both defined by
240-421: A space) denotes a specific temperature point (e.g., " Gallium melts at 85.5763 °F"). A difference between temperatures or an uncertainty in temperature is also conventionally written the same way as well, e.g., "The output of the heat exchanger experiences an increase of 72 °F" or "Our standard uncertainty is ±5 °F". However, some authors instead use the notation "An increase of 50 F°" (reversing
280-467: A supplementary unit. Most British people use Celsius. However, the use of Fahrenheit still may appear at times alongside degrees Celsius in the print media with no standard convention for when the measurement is included. For example, The Times has an all-metric daily weather page but includes a Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversion table. Some UK tabloids have adopted a tendency of using Fahrenheit for mid to high temperatures. It has been suggested that
320-536: Is also home to two Montessori schools: Wake Forest Montessori and Children's House of Wake Forest. Wake Technical Community College is an area two-year college with a north campus on Louisburg Road in Raleigh. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is a seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention. It began offering classes in 1950 on the original campus of Wake Forest University and
360-477: Is commonly known by its acronym, SEBTS. Fahrenheit The Fahrenheit scale ( / ˈ f æ r ə n h aɪ t , ˈ f ɑː r -/ ) is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F ) as the unit. Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests
400-402: Is in use in U.S. for all temperature measurements including weather forecasts, cooking, and food freezing temperatures, however for scientific research the scale is Celsius and Kelvin. Early in the 20th century, Halsey and Dale suggested that reasons for resistance to use the centigrade (now Celsius) system in the U.S. included the larger size of each degree Celsius and the lower zero point in
440-588: Is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The W. E. B. DuBois School opened in 1926 for the African-American community in Wake Forest before racial segregation ceased in 1971. After the school outgrew the facility and moved to a new location, the building was vacant for a decade until the DuBois Alumni Association purchased the building and made it into a community center . Other listings in or near Wake Forest on
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#1732779772661480-517: Is still used on virtually all Canadian ovens. Thermometers, both digital and analog, sold in Canada usually employ both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales. In the European Union, it is mandatory to use Kelvins or degrees Celsius when quoting temperature for "economic, public health, public safety and administrative" purposes, though degrees Fahrenheit may be used alongside degrees Celsius as
520-509: Is water. Wake Forest is located in the northeast-central region of North Carolina, where the North American Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions meet. This area is known as the " Fall Line " because it marks the elevation inland at which waterfalls begin to appear in creeks and rivers. Its central Piedmont location situates Wake Forest approximately three hours by car west of Atlantic Beach , and four hours east of
560-573: The Dr. Calvin Jones House , was built in 1820 and was the residence of the first president of Wake Forest College and the center of activities that took place at the school. The museum displays the history of the town of Wake Forest as well as Wake Forest University. The house contains collections of photos, books, college publications, furniture, documents, professors’ writings, and medical, law and sports memorabilia. Wake County Public Libraries operates
600-502: The Great Smoky Mountains . Wake Forest enjoys a moderate subtropical climate , with moderate temperatures in the spring, fall, and winter. Summers are typically hot with high humidity . Winter highs generally range in the low 50s °F (10 to 13 °C ) with lows in the low-to-mid 30s °F (−2 to 2 °C), although an occasional 60 °F (15 °C) or warmer winter day is not uncommon. Spring and fall days usually reach
640-524: The Virgin Islands , Montserrat , Anguilla , and Bermuda, also still use both scales. All other countries now use Celsius ("centigrade" until 1948), which was invented 18 years after the Fahrenheit scale. Historically, on the Fahrenheit scale the freezing point of water was 32 °F, and the boiling point was 212 °F (at standard atmospheric pressure ). This put the boiling and freezing points of water 180 degrees apart. Therefore,
680-410: The kelvin , this relationship was preserved, a temperature interval of 1 °F being equal to an interval of 5 ⁄ 9 K and of 5 ⁄ 9 °C. The Fahrenheit and Celsius scales intersect numerically at −40 in the respective unit (i.e., −40 °F ≘ −40 °C). Absolute zero is 0 K, −273.15 °C, or −459.67 °F. The Rankine temperature scale uses degree intervals of
720-462: The 1960s. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Celsius scale replaced Fahrenheit in almost all of those countries—with the notable exception of the United States. Fahrenheit is used in the United States, its territories and associated states (all serviced by the U.S. National Weather Service ), as well as the (British) Cayman Islands and Liberia for everyday applications. The Fahrenheit scale
760-530: The 20th century, the Fahrenheit scale was defined by two fixed points with a 180 °F separation: the temperature at which pure water freezes was defined as 32 °F and the boiling point of water was defined to be 212 °F, both at sea level and under standard atmospheric pressure . It is now formally defined using the Kelvin scale. It continues to be used in the United States (including its unincorporated territories ), its freely associated states in
800-405: The Fahrenheit scale is redefined slightly so that the freezing point of water was exactly 32 °F, and the boiling point was exactly 212 °F, or 180 degrees higher. It is for this reason that normal human body temperature is approximately 98.6 °F (oral temperature) on the revised scale (whereas it was 90° on Fahrenheit's multiplication of Rømer, and 96° on his original scale). In
840-606: The Fahrenheit system; the Fahrenheit scale is supposedly more intuitive than Celsius for describing outdoor temperatures in temperate latitudes, with 100 °F being a hot summer day and 0 °F a cold winter day. Canada has passed legislation favoring the International System of Units , while also maintaining legal definitions for traditional Canadian imperial units. Canadian weather reports are conveyed using degrees Celsius with occasional reference to Fahrenheit especially for cross-border broadcasts . Fahrenheit
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#1732779772661880-633: The Forest of Wake, or Wake Forest. Jones sold his farm to the North Carolina Baptist Convention for $ 2,000, who opened the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, later Wake Forest College, on the site. The Raleigh & Gaston Railroad , completed in 1840, established a depot in nearby Forestville that stimulated the school and surrounding village. College leaders convinced the railroad to move
920-562: The National Register of Historic Places are the Bailey-Estes House , Downtown Wake Forest Historic District , Glen Royall Mill Village Historic District , Lea Laboratory , Oakforest , Powell House , Purefoy-Chappell House and Outbuildings , Purefoy-Dunn Plantation , Rock Cliff Farm , Royall Cotton Mill Commissary , South Brick House , Thompson House , Wake Forest Historic District , Wakefield Dairy Complex , and Wakefields . Wake Forest Historical Museum, also known as
960-767: The Western Pacific ( Palau , the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands ), the Cayman Islands , and Liberia . Fahrenheit is commonly still used alongside the Celsius scale in other countries that use the U.S. metrological service, such as Antigua and Barbuda , Saint Kitts and Nevis , the Bahamas , and Belize . A handful of British Overseas Territories , including
1000-437: The depot even closer to the college in 1874, leading to more economic development. This community was incorporated as the "Town of Wake Forest College" in 1880. In 1909, the word "College" was removed from the name of the town. The college moved to the much larger city of Winston-Salem in 1956. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary began offering classes on the original campus of Wake Forest University in 1950, and occupied
1040-574: The entire campus when the university completed its move. In 2007, the town was listed by Forbes magazine as the 20th fastest growing suburb in America, with a 73.2 percent increase in population between 2000 and 2006. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 19.67 square miles (50.9 km ), of which 19.52 square miles (50.6 km ) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.39 km ) (0.76%)
1080-473: The interval 6 times (since 64 = 2 ). Fahrenheit soon after observed that water boils at about 212 degrees using this scale. The use of the freezing and boiling points of water as thermometer fixed reference points became popular following the work of Anders Celsius , and these fixed points were adopted by a committee of the Royal Society led by Henry Cavendish in 1776–77. Under this system,
1120-427: The interval has the same numeric value in kelvins as in degrees Celsius): Fahrenheit proposed his temperature scale in 1724, basing it on two reference points of temperature. In his initial scale (which is not the final Fahrenheit scale), the zero point was determined by placing the thermometer in "a mixture of ice , water, and salis Armoniaci [transl. ammonium chloride ] or even sea salt". This combination forms
1160-448: The low-to-mid 70s °F (low 20s °C), with lows at night in the lower 50s °F (10 to 14 °C). Summer daytime highs often reach the upper 80s to low 90s °F (29 to 35 °C). The rainiest months are July and August. As of the 2020 census , there were 47,601 people, 14,732 households, and 11,104 families residing in the town. Wake Forest hosts the annual Wake Forest Dance Festival every fall at E. Carroll Joyner Park. The DuBois Center
1200-423: The lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice , and ammonium chloride (a salt ). The other limit established was his best estimate of the average human body temperature , originally set at 90 °F, then 96 °F (about 2.6 °F less than the modern value due to a later redefinition of the scale). For much of
1240-442: The need to be able to make this value reproducible using brine. According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave , his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer , whom he had met earlier. In Rømer scale , brine freezes at zero, water freezes and melts at 7.5 degrees, body temperature is 22.5, and water boils at 60 degrees. Fahrenheit multiplied each value by 4 in order to eliminate fractions and make
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1280-555: The present-day Fahrenheit scale, 0 °F no longer corresponds to the eutectic temperature of ammonium chloride brine as described above. Instead, that eutectic is at approximately 4 °F on the final Fahrenheit scale. The Rankine temperature scale was based upon the Fahrenheit temperature scale, with its zero representing absolute zero instead. The Fahrenheit scale was the primary temperature standard for climatic, industrial and medical purposes in Anglophone countries until
1320-442: The rationale to keep using Fahrenheit was one of emphasis for high temperatures: "−6 °C" sounds colder than "21 °F", and "94 °F" sounds more sensational than "34 °C". Unicode provides the Fahrenheit symbol at code point U+2109 ℉ DEGREE FAHRENHEIT . However, this is a compatibility character encoded for roundtrip compatibility with legacy encodings. The Unicode standard explicitly discourages
1360-421: The same size as those of the Fahrenheit scale, except that absolute zero is 0 °R – the same way that the Kelvin temperature scale matches the Celsius scale, except that absolute zero is 0 K. The combination of degree symbol (°) followed by an uppercase letter F is the conventional symbol for the Fahrenheit temperature scale. A number followed by this symbol (and separated from it with
1400-404: The scale more fine-grained . He then re-calibrated his scale using the melting point of ice and normal human body temperature (which were at 30 and 90 degrees); he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees, and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting
1440-398: The symbol order) to indicate temperature differences. Similar conventions exist for the Celsius scale, see Celsius § Temperatures and intervals . For an exact conversion between degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius, and kelvins of a specific temperature point , the following formulas can be applied. Here, f is the value in degrees Fahrenheit, c the value in degrees Celsius, and k
1480-532: The town's governing body. The town manager is appointed by the board to serve as the chief operating officer administering all municipal affairs. The current mayor is Vivian A. Jones ( R , term expires 2025) and the board of commissioners are James E. "Jim" Dyer (R, 2023), Nick Sliwinski (R, 2025), Chad D. Sary (R, 2023), R. Keith Shackleford ( D , 2025), and Adam B. Wright (D, 2023). A new town hall facility opened in downtown Wake Forest in September 2010, and
1520-406: The value in kelvins: There is also an exact conversion between Celsius and Fahrenheit scales making use of the correspondence −40 °F ≘ −40 °C. Again, f is the numeric value in degrees Fahrenheit, and c the numeric value in degrees Celsius: When converting a temperature interval between the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales, only the ratio is used, without any constant (in this case,
1560-826: Was LEED Platinum certified in November 2011. All town departments are housed in the facility, except police (which has its own building nearby) and public works. The town is served by twelve public schools which are administered by the Wake County Public School System and Granville County Schools . Public schools include: Charter schools include Franklin Academy (K–12), Wake Forest Charter Academy (K–8), Endeavor Charter School (K–8), and Envision Science Academy (K–8). Private schools include Thales Academy, All Saints Academy, and St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School , serving grades K–8. Wake Forest
1600-533: Was 47,601, up from 30,117 in 2010 . It is part of the Raleigh metropolitan area . Wake Forest was the original home of Wake Forest University for 122 years before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956. In 1832, Dr. Calvin Jones , originally from New England , bought 615 acres (2.49 km ) of forested land in Wake County, North Carolina. He built his plantation here. The sparsely populated area became known as
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