On 04/23/2007 05:08 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Monday 23 April 2007 11:22, my mailbox was graced by a missive > from NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who wrote: > >> http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Publications/appxc.cfm > > Thanks for the link, I had not realized up to now how f...ed up the > US-Imperial system was. > > I noted the US has 5 different "barrels" of varying capacities, that the > gallon, the cup, the fluis ounce, the pint, the quart, the fathom or the > cable length all refer to different quantities in the US and the UK; not to > mention calling units "international" when they are only legal in the US, > Burma and Liberia; bit like the World Series...... > > Cheers, > > Ron.
Actually if you read http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/upload/SP_447.pdf you'll find that the US received defective scale bars from England in 1855 :-) It's an interesting read _if you're into weights & measures_. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
