From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: What is Zero dB????
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In article <1993Apr6.092913.18724@sei.cmu.edu> rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) writes:
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>In article <1pkveuINNduk@gap.caltech.edu>, Joseph Chiu writes:
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>> The Ohmite company was the first to characterize resistances by numbers, thus
>> our use of the Ohms...
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>Yeah, right.  And the company was started by George Simon Ohmite.

That's completely inaccurate.  The ohm was an original standard made equal
to a the resistance of a standardized electric stove heating element.  That's
where the song "Ohm on the Range" came from, of course.
--scott
