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UK was too slow to adopt Metric System
British Industry and the Metric System

The Metric System in the UK

We make nothing, import everything, export nothing, are subservient to all other industrial nations, yet make ourselves out to be successful. Britain is a nation of complacent leaders, who have been unable to run anything!



Everyone who gripes about the metric system has contributed to the loss of all UK motor and engineering factories, which continued manufacturing their products designed in inches after 1975.

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15-9-2007gray (Gy) the SI unit of radiation dose. Radiation carries energy, and when it is absorbed by matter the matter receives this energy. The dose is the amount of energy deposited per unit of mass. One gray is defined to be the dose of one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of matter, or 100 rad. ...moreL. Harold Gray
15-9-2007Pray tell us what unit of measure the "Gray " is used for? Is this the relative amount of cloud cover over Britain on a miserable winter's day? A HectoGray equal to 100% percent cloud cover A milligray equal to a single whisp of cloud in the sky.KiloGruesome
15-9-2007All these tired old comments about how horrible the metric system is seems to leave out one important factor. The whole world is metric and metric countries and growing and prospering, not only at the expense of the UK worker, but at the expense of the American worker. Germany, a solid metric co...moreDan
14-9-2007The newton, joule, degree kelvin, farad, dalton and gray are all SI units. What else do they have in common? They were all named after British scientists or engineers. No other country matches this record. Who was the first person to propose a coherent system of measurement based on decimal nu...moreMartinV
14-9-2007Oracle2007 said: "Firstly, don't try to obtain a quarter of a quantity using the metric system. You can't do it without resorting to fractions" Mr 2007, isn't a quarter a fraction? Or am I missing something? 1/4. That looks like a fraction to me. 1/4 inch - an imperial ...moreDave the Rave
11-9-2007We should all be using God's counting system, in sevens, The septenary system.The Miracle of Septenary Design
11-9-2007Our resident tradtionalist, Oracle2007, probably still believes, scout's honour, in the Holy Trinity God, Queen and Country The Paris Commune did not happen until 1871 There was nothing "Communist", in the modern sense with the French Revoution The French "Communes&quo...moreSI Unitarian
11-9-2007SI Unitarian probably thinks the Communards were a pop group.Suabian
11-9-2007In a bid to outdo each other in either inventive insults or supposedly clever economic argument you miss a key point. I'd be keen to know your views: if you were introducing a system of weights and measures to a people who had none, would you really choose imperial over metric? If the answer is...moreShudBWorkin
11-9-2007Gosh, it gets boring when the metric fanatics always serve up the same tired, pointless arguments if you show them the flaws in their thinking! As I posted my previous comments, I thought "Here come all the insults about chains, furlongs, barleycorns, etc., again. Surely someone will have...moreOracle2007
11-9-2007Oracle2007 must have been one of those old dears trying to buy bananas in the market in avoirdupois pounds, jolly old libras from the middle ages. Pray tell me how a Pound weight is formally defined? There are exactly 10,000,000 metres from the equator to the north pole via the Paris meridien. ...moreSI Unitarian
11-9-2007One of the main reasons for detesting the metric system is that it has almost always been imposed on nations by compulsion. It's a Communist system, of course, perfected by the French Revolutionaries to ensure that, not only would all people be equal, they would also think exactly the same -...moreOracle2007



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