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From: Rowland McDonnell on 18 Mar 2010 07:24 Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: [snip] > > There was as far as I could tell no hesitation in changing over - > > Took them a hundred years or so to get that far! <puzzled> You what? The UK began the formal process of metrification (or do I mean metrication?) in 1965. That's only 45 years ago. My schooling was entirely metric, and it began in 1972. Yes, I did find out (when looking up those dates) that metric measures were first made *legal* for all purposes by Parliament in 1896. The first attempt to achieve that was an 1864 private members bill, which unfortunately left traders in possession of metric weights and measures liable to arrest under Acts 5 and 6 William IV c63., so it wasn't much use... or so sez the wikip. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Peter Ceresole on 18 Mar 2010 07:41 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Yep, flying shuttle looms of the old fashioned sort, but they only had > (IIRC) four hooked up to the water-wheel powered belt drive when I was > there last. More typically, in the shed I filmed in, there were hundreds of them, in rows and columns. Belt driven, but by electricity, which didn't make them any quieter. This wasn't a heritage site; they were still being used to make money. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 18 Mar 2010 07:41 Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > >I know about the are, but have never seen it > > used. > > A single plot, 10m*10m is called an 'is' Oh you little beaut, you. Tell Mary she's too good for you. But then you both know that... -- Peter
From: Graeme on 18 Mar 2010 07:38 In message <1jfjr2j.qzigv7vcbqrkN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > There was as far as I could tell no hesitation in changing over - > > > > Took them a hundred years or so to get that far! > > <puzzled> > > You what? > > The UK began the formal process of metrification (or do I mean > metrication?) in 1965. > > That's only 45 years ago. > > My schooling was entirely metric, and it began in 1972. > > Yes, I did find out (when looking up those dates) that metric measures > were first made *legal* for all purposes by Parliament in 1896. That's what I was referring to :-) -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: J. J. Lodder on 18 Mar 2010 08:38
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > The original metric system had an independent area unit, > > the are, equal to 100 m^2 > > I presume that's 100 square metres? Of course, m^2 is a unit. > 100 metres square (10,000 square metres) is a hectare. And should be written as (100 m)^2, if you really wanted to use superscript notation. And the hectare was originally defined as 100 are, not as 10,000 square metre. > and I see that used all the time. Yes, if you have land owning friends. > Otherwise, in > housing land area and factory spaces, I see square metres used pretty > much for all purposes. I know about the are, but have never seen it > used. Only in legal documents, afaik, Jan |