Re: Meauring Volts?

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

On Sat, 07 Dec 2002 20:19:52 -0800 Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>
writes:
> Thanks for the warning -- perhaps you should have bowed out after the
> first  rewrite?
*** You're are right again, Bernard.
Perhaps we have too much hindsight and too little foresight.
   when it comes to such matters.
> Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:56:57 -0800 Bernard Cleyet
> <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>
> > writes:
> > > Herb!
> > > You're just modest, they consulted you, did they not?
> >
> > Bernard!
> > It is partially true that I'm just modest ....... but it is
> ABSOLUTELY
> > FALSE to say that Prentics Hall consulted me in the preparation
> any
> > portion of their Webster's Collegate Dictionary.
> >
> > The only consultation that I provided for Prentice Hall took place
> two or
> > three months ago.  I contributed some interesting and novel  lab
> > exercises to be included in one of their new pre-college science
> books.
> > Although my work was approved by them, it took about a whole week
> to
> > conceive, write, and rewrite and rewrite several times to their
> > specifications (including artwork sketches),  they  paid me a
> total of
> > $40 ..... which is about a dollar an hour before taxes.
> >
> > I sincerely hope that others who provide consultation for
> Prentice-Hall,
> > and whose work is approved by them, will be offered a more
> substantial
> > sum for their time and effort.
> >
> > Herb Gottlieb from New York City
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Herbert H Gottlieb wrote (in response to a comment that we coin
> the
> > word
> > "potentiometer" as an instrument to measure electric potentials).
> > > > *** Again, according to my Prentice-Hall Webster's
> Dictionary...
> > > > "po-ten-ti-om-e-ter an instrument for measuring comparing, or
> > > > controlling, electric potentials."
> > > >
> > > > ...so whether or not it is good, it is already in the
> dictionary.
> > > > Herb Gottlieb from New York City
> > > > (Where we can see Englewood Cliffs, the home of Prentice Hall
> > > > dictionaries, across the Hudson River)