U.S.METRIC STUDY INTERIM REPORT ENGINEERING STANDARDS Eleventh in a series of reports prepared for the Congress, U.S. METRIC STUDY, Daniel V. De Simone, Director National Bureau of Standards, Special Publication 345-11(NBS SP 345-11), July 1971, p.49, 15.2 MEASUREMENT UNITS, Professor David Robertson of Bristol University in a letter to the Electrician in April 1904 independently advocated the adoption of a similar MKS system by the St. Louis International Electrical Congress and suggested the "newton" for the unit of force and the "kram" for the unit of mass in order to eliminate the prefix in the base unit "kilogram."
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1941 Obituary, David Robertson Grace's Guide to British Industrial History、「He was an advocate of the MKS system of units, and 36 years ago proposed the "Newton" for the unit of force, and the "Volt-second" for the unit of flux in that system.」
