Right. And I'm sure that if Ben Franklin was still around at the time, the US wouldn't have been left with such an archaic system.
He was quite an innovator! Too bad he died in 1790. Here's a short bio for anyone interested: http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/facts/ David Shatto Los Angeles On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:01:58 +1000 Pat Naughtin wrote: > on 2003-08-14 09.54, David Shatto at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It has a "history" page which pinpoints the creation of the Imperial > > system of weights and measures to the weights and measures act of > 1824 (5 > > Dear David and All, > > It is interesting that this Act of Parliament not only created the > Imperial > Weights and Measures, it also (by default) created the U.S.A. Customary > Weights and Measures by leaving the USA with the older, pre-Imperial, > English measures that, I think, are sometimes referred to as the 'Queen > Anne' measures. > > Cheers, > > Pat Naughtin LCAMS > Geelong, Australia
