- Smoot - Wikipedia
Oliver R Smoot was selected by his Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity pledgemaster because he was deemed shortest—which made measuring the bridge the most labor-intensive—and he was the "most scientifically named "
- Oliver R. Smoot - Wikipedia
In 2011, American Heritage Dictionary admitted his decapitalized surname, smoot, meaning a distance of 5 feet 7 inches (1 70 m), as one of the 10,000 new words added to their fifth edition
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- Smoot: The Most Hilarious Mathematical Unit - Interesting Engineering
A smoot is a nonstandard unit of length that originated at MIT in the 1950s The year was 1958, and Oliver R Smoot was pledging to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity
- MIT to Recalibrate the Smoot | alum. mit. edu
After consultation with MIT administration, and Smoot himself, the Institute formed the Smoot Measurement and Length Recalibration (SMaLR) Task Force earlier this year The smoot was created in October 1958 after seven MIT students calibrated the Mass Ave bridge using 5’7 Oliver Smoot '62
- Smoots: How a fraternity prank turned into a measurement
Now retired and living in San Diego, Smoot took the time to talk to The Register about the prank that made him a unit of measurement and the lasting impact of standards Looking back, he recalled how fraternity leaders assigned him the task, and he and his friends carried it out the next day
- The SMOOT as unit of Length - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
In 1958 Lambda Chi Alpha took 5' 7" MIT freshman pledge Oliver R Smoot, Jr and rolled him head over heels the entire length of the bridge Every ten smoots they calibrated the bridge, painting marks
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