[AT] Supposedly why our old tractors are not metric and a fairly simple tutorial

[Thomas Martin]

A bit of creative writing... Certainly chronologically challenged, with Dombey captured allegdly

in possession of a Standard meter, 4 years before the length was established. :-)

FYI From more  credible sources:

The metric system was first proposed in 1791.
It was adopted by the French revolutionary assembly in 1795,
and the first metric standards ( a standard meter bar and kilogram bar)
were adopted in 1799. The length of the meter bar was only established in late 1798

The Standards weren't made of copper but Platinum. Copper wouldn't be stable enough

temperature wise.

There was considerable resistence to the system at first, and its use was not made compulsory
in France until 1837.

Tom


> On 25 February 2020 at 03:08 Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     I'm not sure how accurate this story is but it matches what I had read for years.
>     https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/04/12/metric-system-usa/
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>     If they had listened to Jefferson we would  not be messing with a double system, metrics would just be what we use...  The 10 based system can be done in  your head (could have saved all those years learning those damned fractions)  :-)  and every tool box wouldn't have a fraction to decimal conversion chart tucked in somewhere that you can't ever find when you need it. Also we would not have to worry about some dead kings thumb size getting lost or a bad few years for the barley crop or a lot of other stuff they tried to set as standards long ago.
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>     This site looks fairly well done and I liked the little section on the metric size of a few common objects.
>     https://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Centimeters?fbclid=IwAR1z77b9GTGRpTD7TM1cH51LA1CKzsTyPJ-n87HsRDmbJv7b5ME7QyCVpbs
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>     If you have forgotten how to use your Abacus there is a section on that too.  :-)
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