I don't think there was ever any mandatory requirement that the change be
affected. Probably US industry and business made a informal or maybe in
some cases a formal analysis and decided it just wasn't worth it.
In my career as a metallurgical engineer, I have had to work with both
systems and see no really compelling argument for the cgs system.
David C. Hallam
KC2JD
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From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Peter Frenning [OZ1PIF]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 1:59 PM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric system
Just to stir the pot one more time...
Didn't the US officially adopt the metric system by Congress resolution
sometime in the 1980's?
I distinctly remember the CA highway signs sporting Miles and Kms when I
lived in San Jose in the late eighties, local radio and TV stations also
gave temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celcius. Visiting CA 10 years later
on business trips, there no Metric signs anywhere to be seen!
Apparently this is one example of inertia winning out over plain common
sense - and law!
Vy 73 de OZ1PIF, Peter
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