Dear Paul Carpenter,
Firstly let me offer my sincere congratulations on your article,
Inching our way to a metric system,
that I found at: http://www.mcall.com/news/all-carp1-qt.7040681oct02,0,2121034.column
when I was alerted to it by a member of the United States Metric
Association.
I found your article to be well-researched, carefully analysed, and
clearly written.
As a second point, I would like to comment on your thoughts about the
cost of non-metrication in the USA. This subject is not well
researched so when I visited the USA two years ago, I gave some
thought to this issue – the results amazed me. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf
for my thoughts on this. You might like to share this with Rep.
Charlie Dent if, as you say, he is concerned about the cost of
metrication.
Thirdly, and finally, you refer to George Washington's promotion of
fair and honest measurement for the USA. I believe that Thomas
Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin also played a major part in the
development of the metric system, not only for the USA but also for
the rest of the world. Go to http://www.metricationmatters.com/who-invented-the-metric-system.html
and search for Franklin, Jefferson, or Washington.
Again, congratulations on your article – I note you mostly got a
positive response in the comments.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for
their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many
different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial
and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA.
Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST,
and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com
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