Correction re my USMA 17913.
The Wright brothers were bicycle mechanics at Dayton, not Akron.
Joseph B.Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
Kilopascal asked in USMA 17911 how any worker in an auto plant could think
that his product was not metric.
2002-02-03
About a week ago, I reported some findings on the use of metric in Texas.
Also, I mentioned about my neighbour who works at Ford Motor company and
claims metric is not used
Thanks to the several readers who provided me with some conversions. Rest
assured that I wrote to the inquirer that we normally provided info on
using the metric system, not the other way around.
But, since we are a government agency we can not answer a conversion
question from SI to
In going through my files I came upon this item from the Metric Reporter of
the American National Metric Council, 1979-06-15:
Liberia has officially decided to convert to the metric system, according
to an April 9 letter from the country's director of standards to the U.S.
National Bureau of
I would just like to inquire if Puerto Rico uses mainly IP instead of metric!!
Is this true?? I only ask because someone I have been in contact with says it is the
case that Puerto Ricans mainly use IP!!
Regards,
Steve.
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http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html
has all of these defined.
Baron Carter
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 04 February, 2002 15:34
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:17926] Query about measurement!!
In the case of
To all:
Another channel in the Salt Lake City area began forecasting in SI along
with ifp. It is Channel 13, a Fox affiliate (http://www.fox13.com/).
The meteorologist said that they will do it every night for all the
foreign visitors in town. Another drop in the bucket...
Cheers,
Nikolay
2002-02-04
Let's hope that those drops don't evaporate after the visitors leave town.
If they drop SI after the Olympics are over, it might not be such a bad idea
to contact them and ask why they dropped SI, as you were beginning to like
having the weather in SI.
John
- Original Message
To all:
Yet another channel in the Salt Lake City area began forecasting in SI
along with ifp. It is Channel 2, a CBS affiliate
(http://www.kutv2.com/). Funny thing - KSL (Channel 5 - NBC affiliate,
and the official broadcaster of the Games) is still in ifp only. I
suppose it's not all that
