[time-nuts] Obscure terms

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Fri Aug 21 03:58:18 UTC 2009


Having one's name attached to a unit is just about the ultimate tribute in
science. IMO, a bigger honor than the Nobel Prize.

W/out these people, we'd be living in the Middle Ages.

FWIW,
-John

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> Last night I was looking at weather stations along the Columbia River near
> Boneville Dam and I came up with this. Been pretty hot up there again.
> A "Langley"
> a CGS unit of heat transmission equal to one thermochemical calorie per
> square centimeter, or exactly 41.84 kilojoules per square meter (kJ/m2).
> Named for the American astronomer Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), the
> langley is used to express the rate of solar radiation received by the
> earth.
>
> Came off the AGRIMET system on the US Bureau of Reclaimation site.
> Agricultural statistics stuff. Pretty cool stuff.
> New to me.
>
> William Rice
> Austin Texas
>
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