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Dear friends, 29 April 1999
I would like to request information on the origins of the word "litre", a
unit for volume.
From the Secretary of the History of Physics Group, Institute of Physics(UK), and of the Science Museum, London, Mr. Neil Brown, I got information
that the above story might be fiction ("I can find no support for the story
that the unit of volume is named after a Mr. Litre: It seems to be an
amusing fiction"); or would you think it is a hoax or joke?
...
A Rusli