These guys still don’t understand the metric system. A million microphones is a phone, because a microphone is one millionth of a phone. A megaphone would be a million million microphone. That is to say, a trillion microphones, or a peta-microphone.

And a grammophone, for that matter. It must be something your grandmother invented. I bought a weather station with an outside transmitter for temperature and air pressure. I like my air pressure in metric rather than inches of Mercury. A standard atmosphere is 1000 millibars, but they now call the…

So, I suppose you also need a million microscopes to have a scope?

Docnick–how does a Deutche Grammophone differ from an ordinary grammophone? Are there more or fewer phones?

Deutsche (German) Grammophone AG is an old German firm that was inspired by Edison and became a leading German maker of…grammophones or as we call them “record players”. By the way almost the whole world, except for North America, calls them grammophones. Other German firms were Grundig, Tefunken, B…

" A standard atmosphere is 1000 millibars" 1013 millibars at sea level. One atmospere is not the definition of a bar, the fact that it’s close to a bar is pure serendipity. One bar = 1 million dynes per square centimeter.

BLE; thanks for the clarification. We live 2800 feet above sea level, so we have to adjust the weather station which is made in Lacrosse, WI. 13 out of 1013 is all of 1.28% so for domestic use we don’t really worry.

There is no adequate defense against idiots. They greatly out number us and seem tireless in their efforts. It’s best just to keep them busy doing something harmless. In Mississippi we elect them to office.

A Deutche Grammophone (Grammophon?), like an Imperial gallon, is a little bigger and more pretentious. [heh-heh, he said Tefunken (Telefunken), heh-heh!]

Sorry circuitsmith; I meant to say Telefunken. “Grammophone” has different acceptable spellings, such as Grammophon and Gramophone, according to the New German Dictionnary by Cassels. “Grammophone” is not acceptable. And a Gramophoneplatte is a … record. In another post I related to a summer job I…

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Docnick–thank you. I thought Deutche Grammophone was a German grandmother’s record player.

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