[Hallicrafters] almost on topic

[Heinz und Hannelore Breuer]

Don't forget that Hertz was well established around the world when the
US finally dropped cps and agreed to use Hz too. Well you probably still
have a long way to go until Celisus, meter and kilogramm.

Vy 73
Heinz DH2FA, KM5VT



Roy Morgan wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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