rant
Posted by
Jim Peck Stamping
on 2008-04-06 13:00:51 UTC
I think it was the French Revolution that implemented metric. They also went to 10 day weeks, suppressed the spanish Inquisition,
and a bunch of other extreme stuff. Only the metric really stuck.
[ R.L. Wurdack]. . One of the big difficulties in getting everyone onto a common standard is the installed base of machinery,
equipment, and stuff. Though I have no hard data to support it I might take a wager that when the academics decided that SI was the
way to go there was far more machinery, equipment and stuff on this planet that was inches than there was metric.
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and a bunch of other extreme stuff. Only the metric really stuck.
[ R.L. Wurdack]. . One of the big difficulties in getting everyone onto a common standard is the installed base of machinery,
equipment, and stuff. Though I have no hard data to support it I might take a wager that when the academics decided that SI was the
way to go there was far more machinery, equipment and stuff on this planet that was inches than there was metric.
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Peter Reilley
2008-04-06 07:02:46 UTC
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2008-04-06 07:51:17 UTC
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2008-04-06 08:03:07 UTC
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2008-04-06 09:47:27 UTC
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2008-04-06 10:27:13 UTC
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2008-04-06 10:46:01 UTC
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R.L. Wurdack
2008-04-06 10:51:29 UTC
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stan
2008-04-06 10:52:38 UTC
Alternatives to ballscrews
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2008-04-06 11:02:02 UTC
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2008-04-06 11:09:26 UTC
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2008-04-06 11:33:07 UTC
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stan
2008-04-06 11:34:51 UTC
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2008-04-06 12:05:36 UTC
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Jim Peck Stamping
2008-04-06 12:32:54 UTC
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Jim Peck Stamping
2008-04-06 13:00:51 UTC
rant
R.L. Wurdack
2008-04-06 13:34:40 UTC
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Peter Reilley
2008-04-06 15:13:21 UTC
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Steve Blackmore
2008-04-06 16:59:36 UTC
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2008-04-06 17:08:12 UTC
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2008-04-06 17:16:38 UTC
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2008-04-06 17:35:54 UTC
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2008-04-06 17:44:04 UTC
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2008-04-06 17:53:03 UTC
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2008-04-06 17:57:55 UTC
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stan
2008-04-06 18:31:33 UTC
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stan
2008-04-06 18:55:02 UTC
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Brian Foley
2008-04-06 20:52:42 UTC
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Jim Peck Stamping
2008-04-07 04:00:27 UTC
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2008-04-07 06:47:18 UTC
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Matthew Tinker
2008-04-07 06:49:42 UTC
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2008-04-07 07:45:14 UTC
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2008-04-07 13:16:10 UTC
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stan
2008-04-07 14:16:07 UTC
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2008-04-07 15:28:14 UTC
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2008-04-07 19:40:34 UTC
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2008-04-07 20:20:05 UTC
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Peter Reilley
2008-04-07 20:21:26 UTC
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