John Schweisthal wrote: >Is that Bill Potts who contributes to this list? Or is that some other >Potts?
It's some other Potts. However, my father was a teacher -- of Physics, no less. At the time John learned metric from his Mr. Potts, my father had been retired for two years.. I made a similar wrong assumption, which was that the Newcastle University at which John got his PhD was Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK. Coincidentally, my father earned his degrees (Hons. BSc and MSc) at a College (Armstrong College, University of Durham) that eventually became the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Both New South Wales, Australia, and Ontario, Canada provide plenty of opportunity for place names that can be confused with UK place names. All three have a both a Scarborough and a Newcastle, for instance. (The UK has two Newcastles -- Newcastle-under-Lyme and Newcastle-on-Tyne.) I was born and raised in Scarborough, England -- and subsequently lived in Scarborough, Ontario. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
