John Kilopascal wrote in USMA 24794:
2003-02-09
Last week I was in Texas. On Friday, as I was waiting in the reps office while he made some phone calls before we went to see some customers, I was paging through an old electrical engineering text book that was on the book shelf. The book was on magnetism and was published in 1929.
One thing of note was the use of a unit called the DYNE-SEVEN.
Apparently, this unit was proposed by an author of another book by the name of Bennett. It is suppose to be equal to 10^7 dynes. This unit would be equal to the hectonewton. The newton was not seen in that book at all. It must not have existed at that time.
The 9th CGPM,1948, adopted the name *newton* for the MKS unit of
force.0
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Joseph B. Reid
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