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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 27/12/2025 à 12:09, J. J. Lodder a écrit :   
   > Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Before that, Celsius was most often called   
   >> Centigrade, and Hertz was kilocycles.   
      
      
   A minor point: kilohertz were kilocycles. (However, 'Calorie' is often   
   used to mean 'kilocalorie'.)   
      
   > 'Kilocycles' is an Americanism, for radio stations for example.   
      
      
   I think not. What else would others have used before kilohertz? All the   
   great British wartime radio and radar development was done in cycles per   
   second.   
      
      
      
   (Nothing to do with the Dutch vehicle-hire company, Hertz Van Rental.)   
      
   There are many examples of "kilocycles per second" in, for instance,   
   pre-War issues of the the British magazine 'Wireless World'.   
      
   And in 'Electronic Computers', Ivall, 1960, I find: "With the   
   audio-frequency type of junction transistors this limits the pulse   
   repetition frequency to something in the region of 50 to 100 kc/s."   
      
   (Jings! I've just ordered a mid-range phone that clocks at over 3 GHz.)   
      
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