[Hallicrafters] almost on topic

[Roy Morgan]

At 07:38 AM 9/16/02 -0400, "Joel R. Hallas" <joel.hallas at snet.net> wrote:
>IMHO, the move from cycles per second to Hertz was an attempt at
>"internationalization" cps doesn't make sense unless you speak English;
>Hertz makes no sense in any languages! <g>

Halli-ites,

There are a number of internationally used symbols or "acronyms" that are 
not meaningful in any language.  UTC for "Coordinated Universal Time" is 
one, for example.

The "Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)" gives 
advice on the use of the "International System of Units (SI)", and can be 
seen at:
<http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/> in HTML form and at:
<http://physics.nist.gov/Document/sp811.pdf> in PDF form.

John R Vodenik wrote:

> > "Damn the college guy who changed Kilocycles to KiloHertz!
> >  Some smart-aleck from MIT, I suppose.

I suspect it was an international committee of representatives and that the 
United States had one vote among all the other participants.  I do not know 
whether our participant was a graduate of MIT or not.

Roy,
A smart-aleck from MIT and employee at NIST.




- Roy Morgan, K1LKY since 1959 - Keep 'em Glowing!
7130 Panorama Drive, Derwood MD 20855
Home: 301-330-8828 Work: Voice: 301-975-3254,  Fax: 301-948-6213
roy.morgan at nist.gov --