John Kilopascal wrote in USMA 20560: >Thanks for the correction. Maybe if I had said British, it would have >covered it, no? > >John > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, 2002-06-20 18:43 >Subject: [USMA:20539] Re: Wind Power Returns To America! > > >> Of kilopascal >> >James Watt was Englishman >> >> Ahem. James Watt was Scottish. He created the term 'horsepower'. >> >> >> >> >From: Wes Lapp >> >>It was news to me that Watts were an SI unit and BTU's were not, >> >>both were invented in England, you know) >> >> http://www.top-success.com/SFS/James%20Watt/finalyears.htm >> Quote: >> In 1882, his name was given a permanent place in the vocabulary of >> science and the world at the suggestion of C. W. Siemens, who, in his >> Presidential Address to the British Association, made the following >> proposal: >> " The other unit I would suggest adding to the list is that of power... >> It might be appropriately called a Watt, in honour of that master-mind >> in mechanical science, James Watt." >> >> -- >> Terry Simpson
My Scottish ancestors impell me to point out that James Watt, James Clerk Maxwell, and William Thomson Lord Kelvin were all Scotts. Not bad for a country of four million people (in 1891). Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
