This was sent before, but never seemed to get to the net.................
> It is interesting to look in the front of the International > Critical Tables, an encyclopedic set of books containing detailed > scientific information about 1920. Every nation, (hundreds of them) > had their own units which were used in commerce and trade. > Unfortunately the only access on the net to these tables is blocked > by a pay barrier. > Their are now very few nations hanging out for their own units. > The story I heard about the inch/metre relationship was that during > WW2 there were problems making spare parts for aeroplane engines to > specification, and it was discovered that the French had supplied a > replica standard metre to the bureau of standards of each major > country and that these could be quickly used to standardise > engineering measurements. My version said that 25.400000000000 mm > per inch was the accepted relationship. > > Clocks were made in Napoleons time with ten hour dials with one > hundred minutes. > > Cheers, > Neville Michie > time-nuts mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
