It’s amazing that engineering school never has the time to teach you about the great men who did all the foundational work for modern society.
Thanks for posting this..
Mr. Joule got slighted. I was taught that all constants and units of measurement named for men are to be capitalized. For example, think of Watt, Farad, Volt, Fahrenheit, Coulomb, Pascal, Ampere, Centigrade, and Erg.
Wikipedia says “The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him.” Shouldn’t it be the “Joule”?
What really irks me is these are all dead white guys! Why do they get all the credit? This is unjust!
> I was taught that all constants and units of measurement named for men are to be capitalized. <
That’s incorrect. The names are always capitalized. The units are not. For example, the curie is a unit of radioactivity, named after Madame Curie. (I picked that particular example to make the feminists happy.)
Who were Mr. Centigrade and Mr. Erg?
An ancient African civilization discovered all these principles centuries before these white sexist racist imperialists. Unfortunately having no written language it was lost to posterity.
“Dead white guys....”
You are correct. So let’s give the honor of his discovery to a woman of color. Sapphire Jewel should get the credit!