Make sure you have the liters in there. SI or not, outside of the gram or the milligram, the liter is a metric unit that the US public is most familiar with.
You can capture Pat's idea in a "before and after" format. All the imperial units on one side, then just 7 or so metric units on the other. You could even list all the crazy interconversions of the imperial units by category on one side than a simple metric conversion on the other. I.e. 1gal = 4qt, 1qt=2pt, etc. on one side, "1 L = 1000 mL" on the other. And you can headline it with something like "What's so hard about the metric system?" Remek On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pat, > > Your comprehensive history of units (the right side of your poster) is of > interest to historians of metrology, but it can only confuse members of the > general public. > DELETE IT ENTIRELY from any proposed poster for Metric Week. > > Concentrate on base units meter, kilogram, second, and ampere (without the > other base units); and only the prefixes milli, centi, kilo, and mega > (without the other prefixes except, perhaps. micro for which the Greek > symbol is a problem). > > More curious readers can add the details of SI from carefully chosen > citations of NIST and USMA sources. > > Gene Mechtly. > > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:02:28 +1000 > >From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> > >Subject: [USMA:45871] Re: Posters > >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > > > Dear Stan and Harry, > > Thanks for your comments. My reaction is as follows: > >________________ > >________________ > > I would appreciate any further comments before I do > > anything with this. > > Cheers, > > > > Pat Naughtin > > ... > >
