hertz hurts

[Bob Hardie- W5UQ]

looks like you are absolutely right Nigel Holmes.  Bob

Under Wikipedia History, it clearly states:

> The hertz is named after the German 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany> physicist Heinrich Hertz 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz>, who made important 
> scientific contributions to electromagnetism 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism>. The name was 
> established by the International Electrotechnical Commission 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission> 
> (IEC) in *1930.*^[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz#cite_note-1> 
> It was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Conference_on_Weights_and_Measures> 
> (CGPM) (/Conférence générale des poids et mesures/) in 1960, replacing 
> the previous name for the unit, /cycles per second 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_per_second>/ (cps), along with its 
> related multiples, primarily /kilocycles per second/ (kc/s) and 
> /megacycles per second/ (Mc/s). The term /cycles per second/ was 
> largely replaced by /hertz/ by the 1970s.


Nigel Holmes wrote:
>  Hey Glen - read the wiki article under "History" ... Second sentence
> ...
>
> Nigel  VK3DZ
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Wikipedia is wrong!  The term "Hertz" was adopted in October of 1933 by
> the International Electrotechnical Commission.  Now it was not generally
> used in the United States until the 1960s.  But, the term definitely was
> adopted in 1933.
>
> See
>
> http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263882/hertz
>
> for details.  Frankly, I respect the Encyclopedia Britannica MUCH more
> than Wikipedia!
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
>
> --- J Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:
>
> Nope. It was adopted in the 1970s when units were reorganized into the
> SI system. See:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz
>
>
>
> Glen, K9STH
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