--- "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does anybody know when the NG experiment with > metric > >'in place of' imperial occured? > > I remember it. I think it was in the 1960s after > the NBS published "A > Metric America - A decision whose time has come".
What is the 'NBS'? I searched the NG website and found the following references: 'Our Heterogeneous System of Weights and Measures' Bell, Alexander Graham. Page 158-169, Mar 1906 'A Measurement Mishmash' Page 28-31, Feb 1977 'How Soon Will We Measure In Metric?' Weaver, Kenneth F. Author. Mackay, Donald A. Artist. Page 287-294, Aug 1977 Editorial. Page 693, Jun 1985 Bulletin 'Does Metric Drive You Mad?' Dunn, Jerry Author. Page 12, Mar/Apr 1995, Contents: Simple tricks for converting temperature and distance readings. It would be interesting to know: a) If the 'experiment' was for metric-only or dual-units. The response from the NG suggests that they tried metric-only. Clearly, a failed metric-only policy does not preclude a dual-units policy. However, this false conclusion appears to be suggested. b) Which issues it applied to (thanks for the prompts on that). The titles might imply that it occured sometime between 1977 and 1985? c) What the articles and editorials actually said, particularly about the 'failure'. Unfortunately, the articles are not available online. It is also a bit disappointing that they do not have it as a faq. The use of a form letter is good news in that it must be a frequent question. It is bad news in that the NG appears to be capable of a false conclusion that resistence to metric-only means resistence to dual-units. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
