Re: MHO to Siemens

[Gary Karshner <karshner@stmarytx.edu>]

> I don't know why that name was chosen but it continues the SI practice of
> naming selected derived units directly after people. It has been the
> official SI name for at least 25 years, probably much longer. As far as I
> know mho was never an SI name, so as far as the International System is
> concerned there was no change from mho to siemens. Since there was no
> famous scientist called mho, it is unlikely that the International
> Conference on Weights and Measures would have considered mho as a unit
> name. I think that mho was introduced by American texts in the olden days
> of mixed cgs and mks units, before SI.
>
> Ian Sefton (I.Sefton@physics.usyd.edu.au)
> School of Physics A28
> University of Sydney NSW 2006
> AUSTRALIA
Ian,
        Next your going to tell me Larry and Curly were not famous either?

Gary Karshner

St. Mary's University
San Antonio, Texas
KARSHNER@STMARYTX.EDU