Why not ask a Swede? Which I am not.
Johan Alfred Holm, född 10 februari 1912 <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912> i Lycksele <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycksele> i Lappland i Västerbottens län <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4sterbottens_l%C3%A4n> , död 19 januari 1986 <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986> i Vinslöv <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinsl%C3%B6v> i Kristianstad län <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristianstad_l%C3%A4n> ,[1] <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Holm#cite_note-1> var en svensk ingenjör <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenj%C3%B6r> . Under tiden som anställd vid Sveriges geologiska undersökning <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_geologiska_unders%C3%B6kning> [2] <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Holm#cite_note-2> (SGU) i Norsjö <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsj%C3%B6> på 1930-talet fick han idén om ett geofysiskt mätinstrument, som kom att kallas slingram. Det första instrumentet av Slingramen <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingram> [3] <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Holm#cite_note-3> uppfanns i Sverige under vintern 1936 av Alfred Holm tillsammans med geofysikern Sture Werner <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture_Werner> . Det är den i världen mest använda metoden vid elektromagnetisk prospektering. Som instrumentmakare medverkade Alfred Holm i utvecklingen av en hel rad instrument, bland annat krökningsmätare för borrhål. Han gick i pension från SGU 1977. Looks like it just came to be known as Slingram. Some words in English: [in Sweden] The first use of electromagnetic (EM) instruments to locate buried ore deposits was in 1921 by Centralgruppens Emmissons A.-B. (Sundberg et al., 1923:39). The survey used the EM method as developed by Karl Sundberg (Fig. 1) (Sundberg et al., 1923:18ff). The EM Slingram method was invented in Sweden in 1936 by Sture Werner and Alfred Holm (NE). Rolf From: SEGMIN [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis Woods via SEGMIN Sent: 2-Apr-20 00:33 To: [email protected] Cc: Dennis Woods <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SEGMIN] Slingram etymology And the other imponderable is: should Slingram be capitalized as I have always done? If it is just a Swedish translation of "loop frame", does it really need to be capitalized? Obviiously we all have too much time on our hands during the COVID-19 shutdown. Cheers, Dennis At 09:16 PM 01/04/2020, Kim Frankcombe via SEGMIN wrote: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------126154CDF1FCB3448640D024" Content-Language: en-AU Thanks James - I looked at the green SEG volume and Slingram gets one paragraph on p259 while MaxMin gets a page and a half. Readers are referred to Sveriges Geologiska for more info. The single word for something complex problem came up for me once before when I was interpreting some field notes written in French by an Arab gravity crew in Tunisia. My French wasn't up to the job so I threw it to Babel fish which at the time was better than Google translate and it told me that they had been delayed in a paddock for herring barrel time talking to a farmer. There was a typo in one of their words with one of the hats missing off a letter but it started me down a path of asking why would you have a word for herring barrel? Turns out they used to be pretty important and a source of much international argument. Cheers Kim On 2/4/20 11:48 am, James Reid via SEGMIN wrote: In Swedish? Regardless, it's very obscure to have a word for "Loop frame" I wonder what other contexts it's used in? From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Sent: April 2, 2020 11:44 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: James Reid <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [SEGMIN] Slingram etymology This message originated outside Mira Geoscience. Google Translate says it means loop frame. Howard Golden 3 Forsyth Close Mosman Park, WA 6012 AUSTRALIA +61 417 912 171 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> From: SEGMIN < [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of James Reid via SEGMIN Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:29 To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: James Reid < [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEGMIN] Slingram etymology Hi Kim I was told (or read somewhere) that it was from the Swedish and meant something like "Loop-frame" I don't have my textbooks in my home office, but I am pretty sure there is a bit of the history in the article by Frischknecht et al on small-loop EM in the SEG EM methods volumes edited by Nabighian (Vol 2 Applications, Part A?) Cheers, James From: SEGMIN < [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Kim Frankcombe via SEGMIN Sent: April 2, 2020 11:24 AM To: SEGMIN User Forum <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: Kim Frankcombe <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [SEGMIN] Slingram etymology This message originated outside Mira Geoscience. I was looking for a diversion when writing a report today and started wondering where the word Slingram comes from. I'd always assumed it was Finnish or at least Scandinavian and made perfect sense if you spoke the language but it might also be someone's name. At a stretch it might be Separated loop induction ground something machine? Sherrif says it's Swedish for Horizontal Loop method, supporting my original thought although presumably that still involves an acronym as I'd be surprised if any language had a single word saying Horizontal Loop EM method - scary if they do! Anyone know? 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