Dear Pat:
Let me ad: For those who are interested in the metric role the founding fathers
played, and still read books on paper, consult "Measuring America" by Andro
Linklater. ISBN 0-8027-1396-3. In addition to good reading, not all related to
metric, there are numerous quotations of the men pertaining metric.
Stan J.
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Naughtin
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: 08 Jun 10, Tuesday 19:46
Subject: Re: [USMA:41045] Fw: From an old schoolhouse...
On 2008/06/10, at 1:02 AM, Stan Jakuba wrote:
A sentence in a one-room schoolhouse, a section of the 1800s village museum
in Fairplay CO.
Then down with every "metric" scheme
Taught by the foreign school.
We’ll worship still our Father’s God!
And keep our Father’s "rule"!
Dear Stan,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington would have rolled
over in their graves when they heard this 'poetry' since they had all worked so
hard to get the metric system, and especially its decimal character, adopted
worldwide in the 1780s and 1790s.
Search for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington in the
Metrication timeline that you will find at:
http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/MetricationTimeline.pdf to see where
their efforts fitted into the international development of the metric system.
I think that from the standpoint of the USA it would be hard to describe the
metric system as foreign. I doubt that without the decimal influences from the
USA (especially from the three men mentioned above) the metric system might not
have got off the ground in France at all. I should also mention that the
international system of units — that preceded the metric system by about 120
years — was an English development in 1668 (See:
http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/CommentaryOnWilkinsOfMeasure.pdf ).
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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/ for more metrication information, contact
Pat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go
to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter/ to subscribe.
