[Hallicrafters] vibrator how it works

[Roy Morgan]

At 02:08 AM 4/16/2007, you wrote:
>It has been suggested by some, that the dumping of cps for Hertz was a 
>terrible insult to Charles Proteus Steinmetz, who made significant 
>contributions to early studies of alternating currents........
>With tongue slightly in cheek,
>Chuck N7RHU


Chuck,

Oh, the ill fortunes of the ones who really did the thinking!  Sigh.

<tongue-in-cheek ON>

Maybe it was good though. I can just see it now: popular usage of the term 
Steinmetz as the unit of frequency leads to "Steins", and this derails so 
many technical meetings as to become troublesome when the hard working 
engineers and technicians become thirsty for beverages traditionally served 
in steins that  they all quit and repair to the nearest pub, with no 
further work accomplished that day.

Headline:
"Unfortunate choice of commemorative term by the IEEE and ANSI leads to 
decline in UhMurrican technical competence especially in the electrical and 
electronic engineering fields."

"We had no idea it would have this effect" said one senior ANSI official 
who asked to remain anonymous.

<tongue-in-cheek OFF>


<real-information ON>

By the way, if you want to know more about standard units and such, see:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html

Where we learn that the unit for frequncy is "hertz" (uncapitalized), and 
is measured in units of the reciprocal of the second.  In this table, all 
the units named after famous persons are not capitalized.

or read this publication:

"Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI) "
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/pdf.html

<real-information OFF>

Roy


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