by today's measurements, it's about 39.43 or there abouts, generally the northern border of Maryland, whatever that turns into, and since the country ended near it's western end, so did the line. The rest was Indian country. I'm used to big old trees and rock piles to designate real estate markers. It is rather fun to to run the old survey lines of old property being described that way!! Like the Mason-Dixon Line in some places.
>________________________________ > From: "Heiland, Leo J" <leo.j.heil...@intel.com> >To: "ri...@ieee.org" <ri...@ieee.org> >Cc: "emc-p...@ieee.org" <emc-p...@ieee.org> >Sent: Monday, March 4, 2013 3:28 PM >Subject: RE: NRTL North of the 40th parallel - Off Topic > > > >FYI > >The Mason-Dixon line It is not on the 40th either (close). The 40th runs >across Lancaster county PA, and through the town of Millersville, PA and >across the campus of my High School. > >Leo Heiland > >From:emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Richard Nute >Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 1:13 PM >To: Bill Owsley >Cc: Ted Eckert; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG >Subject: Re: NRTL North of the 40th parallel - Off Topic > > >The Mason Dixon Line only extends to the southwest >corner of Pennsylvania, not all the way across the >U.S.A. :-) > > >On 3/3/2013 7:29 PM, Bill Owsley wrote: >Otherwise, colloquially known as the Mason-Dixon line >> >>> >>>________________________________ >>> >>>From:Ted Eckert <ted.eck...@microsoft.com> >>>To: "EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG" <EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> >>>Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2013 12:44 PM >>>Subject: RE: NRTL North of the 40th parallel - Off Topic >>> >>>Let me clarify that my response is intended only in jest and is not intended >>>as a critical response. (I don't know how well emoticons work on this >>>list-server.) >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Ted Eckert [mailto:ted.eck...@microsoft.com] >>>Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 8:29 AM >>>To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG >>>Subject: Re: NRTL North of the 40th parallel - Off Topic >>> >>>I know I'm getting pedantic here. The 40th parallel runs across the middle >>>of the United States. U.S. Cities north of the 40th parallel include >>>Northbrook Illinois, Newtown Connecticut, Peabody Massachusetts, Courtland >>>New York and a few other headquarter cities of test laboratories on OSHA's NRTL list. A quick check shows that MET Labs in Blaltimore (at 39 degrees north) is just about the only NRTL with headquarters south of the 40th parallel. >>> >>>Ted Eckert >>>Compliance Engineer >>>Microsoft Corporation >>>47° 40' 10"N >>>122° 7' 26"W >>>ted.eck...@microsoft.com > >- >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc >discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to ><emc-p...@ieee.org> >All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html >Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. >Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ >Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html >List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html >For help, send mail to the list administrators: >Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> >Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> >For policy questions, send mail to: >Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> >David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com> - >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc >discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to ><emc-p...@ieee.org> >All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: >http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html >Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at >http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used >formats), large files, etc. >Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ >Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html >List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html >For help, send mail to the list administrators: >Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> >Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> >For policy questions, send mail to: >Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> >David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com> > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
