"Joseph B. Reid" wrote:
>
> James Freysinger wrote in USMA 17885:
>
> >"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
>
> The first CGPM was in 1889 and the third meeting was in 1901. I think it
> is more likely than the micron was defined at a meeting of the CIPM (Comit
> International des Poids et Mesures).
I think that you are probably right, Joe. That makes excellent sense.
Thanks!
Jim
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