: 
: >Similarly, people usually use dB for dBm. Another common mistake is spelling
: >``db'' instead of ``dB'' as you did in your article. See the ``B'' is for 
: >``Bell'' company, the mother of AT&T and should be capitalized.
: 
: Thus, a deciBell (deci-, l., tenth of + Bell) is a fractional part of the 
: original Bell.  For example, SouthWestern Bell is a deciBell.

Out of what hat did you pull this one?  dB is a ratio not an RBOC!        

: And the measure of current, Amp, is actually named after both the AMP company
: and the Amphenol company.  Both companies revolutionized electronics by
: simulatenously realizing that the performance of connectors and sockets 
: were affected by the amount of current running through the wires.

Sorry.  The unit for current is the AMPERE which is the name of a french-man
named AMPERE who studied electrical current.  The term AMP is just an abbreviation
of it.  The company AMP came after the AMPERE unit was already in use.
  
: The Ohmite company was the first to characterize resistances by numbers, thus
: our use of the Ohms...

I don't know about this one, but it doesn't sound right.
  
: 
: Alexander Graham Bell, actually, is where Bell came from...  
Well you got one thing right!
: 
: 
: 
: Actually, Bel refers
: 
: >                          With highest regards,
: >                               Babak   Sehari.
: 
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