Henry Fox Talbot.
Check this reference:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Talbot.html.
I made a quick visit, myself, and noticed a glaring error (Wiltshire
misspelled Whiltshire). No other obvious errors though.
You might try using the Google search engine (http://google.com). The above
URL was from the ninth hit.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of James R.Frysinger
> Sent: December 01, 2000 14:04
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9487] Re: SI is English!
>
>
> OK, I give up. What's a talbot? The only thing I can find within 2 min
> is "Talbot", an English dog that may have been the predecessor for the
> bloodhound.
>
> And while you're at it, how many Sverdrup Janskies per Dobson Unit is
> that? ;-)
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Scott Clauss wrote:
> > I have gotten tired of hearing the British and Americans say that SI is
> > French, and isn't their system. This morning while looking at torque
> > wrenches it stuck me as odd that they advertize them as using
> "English and
> > metric" units, but the metric units were newton-meters. I
> thought is was
> > silly saying Newton wasn't English, so I made this little
> table. Appears SI
> > is more UK than anything else. What did I miss, and did I get anything
> > wrong?
> >
> > meter From the Latin metrum and the Greek metron,
> both meaning "measure."
> > kilogram From chilioi, the Greek word for a thousand + the
> Latin gramma,
> > which was a small weight similar to the English grain
> > second the second division of the hour, latin secundus
> > ampere French physicist Andr�-Marie Amp�re
> > kelvin English (Scottish?) mathematician and
> physicist William Thomson,
> > later Lord Kelvin
> > mole named by W. Ostwald, a German Chemist, from
> MOLekulargewicht.
> > candela From the Latin word for "candle."
> > radian named by James Thomson, brother of Lord
> Kelvin, latin radius.
> > steradian from the Greek stereos, solid + radian
> > hertz German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
> > newton English mathematician, and physicist Isaac Newton
> > pascal French mathematician Blaise Pascal
> > joule British physicist James Prescott Joule
> > watt British engineer James Watt
> > coulomb French physicist, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
> > volt Italian scientist Count Alessandro Volta
> > farad British physicist Michael Faraday
> > ohm German physicist Georg Simon Ohm
> > siemens German electrical engineer Werner von Siemens
> > weber German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber
> > tesla (Croatian- (or Serbian-?))American
> electrical engineer Nikola Tesla
> > henry American physicist Joseph Henry
> > degree Celsius Swedish astronomer and physicist Anders Celsius
> > lumen from Latin for light
> > lux from Latin for light
> > becquerel French physicist, Antoine-Henri Becquerel
> > gray British physician L. H. Gray
> > sievert Swedish physicist Rolf Sievert
> > katal From "catalyst"?
> >
> > Totals:
> > Non-proper name origin 10
> > English/British 6
> > German 4
> > French 4
> > American 2
> > Swedish 2
> > Italian 1
> >
> > If you add the quasi-SI units of talbot, bel and neper you pick
> up two more
> > Brits and another American.
> >
> > After spending some time doing this I found a nice web page that has a
> > similar list with pictures of the men (yes they're all men) involved.
> > http://indykfi.atomki.hu/indyKFI/MT/orig_si.htm
> > Quick what metric derived, but not SI, unit is named after a woman?
> >
> > And on a off topic, what is the difference between British and
> English? I
> > suppose they used to swing swords at each other because of the
> distinction,
> > but in America at least in modern times the distinction has faded.
> >
> > Since this is non-HTML the columns may get messed up in transit.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Scott C
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