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From: "George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Fuel - Weights and Measures
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:50:23 +1000
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Todd,
I didn't know that - I guess you have to start from a known somewhere!
George ( down under)

> I've tried to resist jumping into this non-rotary thread but....
> I've never understood why a country that fought so hard for it's
> independence from imperial rule is one of the last in the world to 
> continue
> embracing a measurement system based on a dead English Kings various body
> parts, especially when the advantages of the S.I. system are undeniable.
> Canada switched over in 1977, so I'm the right age to be comfortable
> in both systems, so I don't need to mentally convert when discussing 
> issues
> with our American friends. But I really don't get the temp system based on
> blood! (F)
>
> Todd (soon to be at 0 degrees, where water should freeze! Not 32)
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> You are correct on both the foot and the yard.  The inch was derived
> from one of the king's thumb joints.  Eventually someone cast a chunk of
> metal, and said we'll use this from now on, 'cause they got tired of
> having to remeasure the kingdom every time there was an assasination.
> In most instances, it was a bureaucrat hidden in the basement of a
> corner of the castle, and the casting form was made from scrap material
> laying around . . . which is a hyperbolic way of saying, it was a rather
> arbitrary process.
>
>
>
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