"Joseph A. & Ruth O. Ryan" wrote:
> Most folks in the USA have not, and probably won't in the next 20-50 years
> (if ever), converted
> to, or use, the metric system of measuring things (except those technocrats
> that lurk in the
> halls of 'white tower' edifices (ie MIT, Yale, Princeton, etc).
It's interesting to note that the foundation work,
J.C. Maxwell's "A Treatise on Electricity & Magnetism"
used metric units exclusively back in 1873.
73,
Sinisa YT1NT, VE3EA
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