[Amps] Flash arcs

[Will Matney]

Peter,

If you ask me, the Europeans are a little smarter in some respects. At least they had the sense to call a tube a valve. They named it for the way it actually works, not how it looks!

Best,

Will

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On 7/27/06 at 10:41 AM Peter Chadwick wrote:

>Jim said:
>>Which "Journal of the IEEE" are we talking about?<
>Never said a word about the IEEE.
>In the 1850's there was set up in London a 'Society of Electricians'. In
>the 1860's or thereabouts, they became the 'Institution of Telegraph
>Engineers', and at some stage a few years later, they became the
>'Institution of Electrical Engineers' or IEE. In 2005 they became the IET.
>Because title 'IEE' was taken, the American equivalent  was called the
>AIEE - American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In a similar way, we
>got the BritIRE - British Institute of Radio Enginers, which amalgamated
>with the IEE in the late 1980's, in the same way as the AIEE and IRE
>merged to become IEEE in 1963.
>So there are learned bodies outside the US.
>73
>Peter G3RZP - Senior Member, IEEE
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