Bob Miller wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:56:33 -0700, Dave wrote:

Bob Miller wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out how a cycle became a hertz. A cycle is
a noun, or it could be a verb. Hertz was a fellah.

bob
k5qwg
It's not "cycle". It's "cycles per second". Hertz proved the
possibility of man-made electromagnetic fields. They thought he needed
something with his name on it.

Cycles per second are frequency, yes, but it's still made up of
individual sine wave cycles, or, um, "hertz'". Sounds funny when you
came up in the megacycle days.

bob
k5qwg
It sounded funny 40 years ago; I've since managed to adjust.