On 2008/08/24, at 8:20 AM, James Frysinger wrote:
Thanks, Pat. I'm pleased to see that your timeline has grown
considerably. In particular, I was tickled to see you describe the
abacus as I did (in your entry for 1107) as more like a "register or
accumulator". We must be two great minds....
Jim
Dear Jim,
Not true that we might be two great minds. I am confident of yours but
not sure of mine!
A nearer truth is that you, and many others on this list, have
influenced the growth of the 'Metrication timeline' in so many ways.
Earlier influences were a timeline that you wrote for your Metric
Methods web page and the metric chronology, the USMA web page edited
originally by Don Hillger and now by Gary Brown.
Other, more formal, influences have been from BIPM, NIST, Library of
Congress, the library at Monticello, and the University of Virginia
especially for the contributions made to the French decimal metric
system from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.
For those not familiar with the 'Metrication timeline', you can find
it at http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/MetricationTimeline.pdf
The USMA chronology is at http://www.gsbrown.org/metric/dates.htm
The BIPM history is at http://www.bipm.org/en/bipm/history/
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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