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Brayton Cycle is the established term and it's not some unique American proclivity. This seems like unnecessary nationalistic nonsense.
by jasonwatkinspdx 3y ago
Brayton Cycle is the established term and it's not some unique American proclivity. This seems like unnecessary nationalistic nonsense.
- rootusrootus 3y agoAnd of course it is the top voted comment in this discussion right now. Europeans have the biggest ongoing case of butthurt I've ever experienced. Is it some kind of inferiority complex because the US is a superpower?
- networkchad 3y ago[dead]
- adrian_b 3y agoI am neither an US citizen nor British so I do not have any personal interest in this. However I care deeply about historical truth and about remembering to whom we are indebted for the things we use every day. In this case there is an indisputable temporal priority, as the term "Joule cycle" had already been in use for a long time before Brayton invented his engine. Even if the priority would not have been so evident, between two people, one who has made some money by building and selling a thing and a second one, who has taught everybody how to build such things and why they should build them, I believe that the reasons to remember the second are much more important, even if it is not unusual for the American spirit to honor more the first.
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoI think Joule is doing just fine reputation wise. Language and history is messy. If you don't accept this you'll spend your life tilting at windmills in the most pointless way. Another example, Von Neumann did not invent the architecture named after him. It's named after him because he wrote a very influential report on ENIAC.