From: marrevola@rediris.es
Subject: Re: What is Zero dB????
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D
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In article <1993Apr6.132429.16154@bnr.ca>, moffatt@bnr.ca (John Thomson) writes:
> Joseph Chiu (josephc@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
> 
> : And the measure of current, Amp, is actually named after both the AMP company
> : and the Amphenol company.  Both companies revolutionized electronics by
> : simulatenously realizing that the performance of connectors and sockets 
> : were affected by the amount of current running through the wires.
> 
> Sorry.  The unit for current is the AMPERE which is the name of a french-man
> named AMPERE who studied electrical current.  The term AMP is just an abbreviation
> of it.  The company AMP came after the AMPERE unit was already in use.
>   
> : The Ohmite company was the first to characterize resistances by numbers, thus
> : our use of the Ohms...
> 
> I don't know about this one, but it doesn't sound right.
Are you (two) joking?
Is the entire Internet flaming you (two)?
Ahh!, now I remember that Ohmite company was the first introducing "the pink
colored resistor", only for electronics working females ;-)
-- 
Manuel Arrevola Velasco   ||||| True e-mail: manolo@taf.fundesco.es |||||
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