[ RadSafe ] Metric system introduce in UK in the early seventies.

[John R Johnson]

Fred

Is that pounds for "weight" or pounds "sterling" for money?

I lived in the UK in 1973-1974 and knew what a "pint" was then. Does it
still taste as good:)!

John

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl]On
Behalf Of Fred Dawson
Sent: February 17, 2006 1:05 PM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Metric system introduce in UK in the early
seventies.


Yes but in the UK miles per hour and feet and inches, stones, pounds, onces,
furlongs and most important pints for the sale of beer are all still in
common use together with the new SI units!!

Fred Dawson

----- Original Message -----
From: "parthasarathy k s" <ksparth at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Dimiter Popoff" <didi at tgi-sci.com>; "A Karam" <paksbi at rit.edu>; "John R
Johnson" <idias at interchange.ubc.ca>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 5:16 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Metric system introduce in UK in the early seventies.


> The switch over to the metric system in Uk was fairly swift. I was then a
> student. Along with the metric syatem their currency also changed. Those
> experienced with penny, shilling and pound has to contend with pence; we
> perpetually felt that after every purchase either we are overcharged or
> undercharged!
>
>  I still have a colourful poster with bold letters stating the various
> units of conversion.
>
>  Regards
>  K.S.Parthasarathy
>
> Dimiter Popoff <didi at tgi-sci.com> wrote:
>  I suspected something like that :-).
> My guess is that the radiation units are those taking about the
> least effort to switch. I doubt there are many people who
> grew up in the US and think millimeters rather than fractions
> of an inch, litres rather than gallons/pints (whatever....:-),
> kmph rather than mph etc...
> The chip industry has made the move - they just specify
> dimensions both in millimters and inches, and, well, we all
> use Volts, Amps, Watts etc.
> I do wonder how it is with temperatures. Those of the
> listmembers doing lab work must be used to degree Celsius (and/or
> Kelvin), however, when it comes to weather - do they still think
> Fahrenheit? My guess is they have developed a precise
> calculator to do the conversion a long time ago (I have
> to struggle every time I am confronted with degree F,
> although evenually I manage it... :-).
>
> Dimiter
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
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>
> http://www.tgi-sci.com
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> -------Original Message-------
>> From: A Karam
>
>> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?
>> Sent: Feb 17 '06 06:04
>>
>> My understanding is that the first bill to change the US to SI units was
>> introduced in the early 1800s. Still working on the details....
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> P. Andrew Karam, Ph.D., CHP
>> Assistant Professor
>> Rochester Institute of Technology
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl on behalf of John R Johnson
>> Sent: Thu 2/16/2006 21:39
>> To: Radsafe
>> Subject: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?
>>
>>
>>
>> RADSAFERS
>>
>> When will the US convert to the SI units? If I recall correctly, the
>> conversion was going to be completed in ~1990.
>>
>> What is the current status?
>>
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