 | Weights and measures - 1976 - 320 pages
...industries. It is interesting to read a statement made in 1959 by a leading automotive spokesman who said: "Even if the metric system were far superior to the...period for at least two generations, the abandonment of our mechanical standards, upon which are based our present system of interchangeability of parts of... | |
 | Economics - 1921 - 780 pages
...Engineering, Syracuse University, who sees the practical side of the question, expresses himself as follows: 8 Even if the metric system were far superior to the...English system, which it is not, and even if it were best to enforce it by compulsory legislation, which it is not, the enormous cost of introducing it,... | |
 | American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers - Air conditioning - 1905 - 322 pages
...length are ' tied irrevocably to the past.' The American people cannot give them up if they would. " Even if the metric system were far superior to the...period for at least two generations, the abandonment of our mechanical standards, upon which are based the present system of interchangeability of parts of... | |
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The American people cannot give them up if they would. Even if the metric system were far superior to the English system, which it is not, and even if it were possible to enforce it by compulsory legislation, which it is not, the enormous cost of introducing... 