ABSTRACT
H. Peter Jost, president of the International Tribology Council, coined the word tribology in the year 1966. The word is a combination of τρίβω, tribo, “I rub” in classic Greek and the sufx -logy from -λογία, -logia “study of,” “knowledge of.” Various reports published between 1966 and 2009 for the United Kingdom and for China state that between 1% and 2% of the gross national product or gross domestic product could be saved by optimized tribology (Jost 1966, Research Report Tribologie 1976, Tribology Science Industrial Application Status and Development Strategy 2008, Zhang 2009).
