"Joseph B. Reid" wrote:
>
> James Freysinger wrote in USMA 17873:
....
> >.... My Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary gives 1892
> >as the date it [micron] was first used and interestingly it was one year later
> >that the Mendenhall Order was published.
....
> The Shorter Oxford Dictionary dates birth of the micron as 1892
That's not terribly common for these dictionaries to agree on dates of
word origins. I suppose then that the term micron was coined at some
meeting, perhaps a CGPM meeting.
Jim
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