[BC] Cycles don't Hurt...

[Jeff Allen]

...or the Philo.
Zworykin was a crook..always liked to "visit" my uncle Philo in his lab in
San Francisco.

J Allen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at earthlink.net>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 8:52 AM
Subject: [BC] Cycles don't Hurt...


> I agree that a honorarium is a nice thing but it has always struck me as
> odd to change cycle/s to Hertz.  After all, the wave goes through cycles
> not Hertz(es).  Someday we'll have to get use to watching the news on the
> Zworykin and not the telee.
>
> Burt
>
> Tesla is already a term used in measuring very strong magnetic fields.
>
> At 10:12 AM 7/8/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> > > jvodenik at sosinet.net writes:
> > >
> > > > I don't buy into this MHz and KHz stuff...it's still Kc and Mc for
me.
> > > >  Kinda like politically correct, thank goodness I'm NOT.
> > >
> > > Curious... why deny credit to Heinrich Hertz, who discovered these
> > "Hertzian
> > > Waves", by not using his name as the designator for frequency? It's
> > considered
> > > standard nomenclature. Why the "rebellion"?
> >
> >Naming cycles "Hertz" has no logical connection with RF or radiated
energy
> >cycles. Please tell me how the Hertz dipole experiment relates to AC
utility
> >power. If a name had to be applied to the humble number of alternations
per
> >unit of time, Tesla would have made far more sense because his
> >experimentations
> >included not only electrical cycles but mechanical resonance as well.
He's
> >also
> >probably the only person who totally understood AC in all its forms from
the
> >lowest to highest frequency. So Hertz gets cycles while Tesla is
relegated
> >to the SI version of Gauss. Go figure.
> >
> >
> >Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
> >Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology
> >(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation)
> >Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-
>
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