On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:34:33 -0700, terry
wrote:

On Jul 31, 1:18 pm, Mark Lloyd wrote:
They changed "Mhos" to "Siemens". I wish they hadn't (naming it after
someone, rather than using something actually meaningful).

You mean;
Like watts; after James Watt?
Or volts after Volta, amps after Ampere, farads after Faraday, curies
after Marie Curie, roentgens of radioctivity after Roentgen, magnetic
flux after Gauss,. frequencies after Hertz, pasteurization of food
after Pasteur, etc. etc. hard to think of many units that are NOT
named after some researcher!
Maybe we could think and Fess and den come up with a few missing
ones?.
And of course we have the decibel (Bel) after Alexander Graham Bell of
telephone inventing fame!

Could this involve the strange idea that if something happens a lot,
it must be good?
--
Mark Lloyd
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"Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is
not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has
no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy