On Tuesday 21 December 2004 23:51, William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Luigi de Guzman" > Subject: Re: Pentax lens screw sizes, help please > > > Even living as I do in the USA, I'll take metric over imperial > > measures any > > day. Perhaps someday even this country will go to a hard metric > > system--the > > journey of a ten thousand li* begins with a single step, after > > all... > > I think Jimmy Carter decreed that the USA would join step with the > rest of the world and adopt the metric system. > Unfortunately, he seems to have been somewhat ahead of his time.
It was LBJ that was supposed to bring the USA into the metric system, as I recall. I don't know this for sure, but I would have suspected that Detroit (or some other big manufacturing interest) would have sabotaged this and pushed instead for "soft" metrization. I graduated high school in 1998 (that probably makes me the baby here) and we still used US fluid ounces in our photo lab--even if, right across the hall, we used liters and mL in chemistry. I for one preferred working everything out in metric: I hated having to do all the fractions for mixing photo chemicals in fluid ounces. -Luigi > > William Robb
