[Elecraft] Units

[paul at n4lcd.com]

>Silly thread -- :-) -- but it is important to keep one's facts
>straight. The Cycle per Second was named the Hertz in compliance
>with a long tradition in the scientific community of naming
>scientific units of measure after the folks who did seminal work
>in those areas of science. Mssrs Alessandro Volta (voltage),
>Andre-Marie Ampere (current), Georg Ohm (resistance), James Watt
>(power), Nicola Tesla (magnetic flux density), Blaise Pascal
>(pressure), and Isaac Newton (force), to name just a few I can
>think of off the top of my head, were all "just men". :-)
>Heinrich Hertz (electromagnetic frequency) takes his rightful
>place in this pantheon proudly.
>
>Bill W5WVO

www.N4LCD.com/electricalhistory/




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