As a young man from Boston, I rode over the Harvard Bridge many times, and was introduced to the smoot scale by my fellow bus riders. Today, I don't think of the smoot, at all, as unit created by devout isolationists. On the contrary, I believe that MIT students are devoted to measurement standards, and would be ardent supporters of U.S. metrication if given the opportunity to join us in advancing our goal officially. Please consider: creating a measurement unit based on someone's name is a time-honored practice within the SI (watt, henry, volt, gray, newton, etc.).
Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122 Midland, Texas 79707-2872 US +1(432)528-7724 [email protected]
