Paul's Metric Notes

This is just random notes for metric stuff I want to come back to at some point....

Websites

• http://www.socks5.com/metric-conversion-myths.html
• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3724/is_n1_v59/ai_17261763
• Jefferson promises metric: http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0108C&L=hp3000-l&P=25137
• House Report, many interesting quotes: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/h-rep-39-62.html
• Australian Metrication: http://www.pubs.asce.org/WWWdisplay.cgi?5012088#

Famous Pro Metric US Citizens

Presidents

• John Quincy Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• Harold Ford
• Jimmy Carter
• George Bush

Other

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Benjamin Franklin
• Not US, but her teaching technique is widely regarded: Madam Montessori
• Sir John Riggs Miller: "… one weight, one measure, and one coin, Would all the world in harmony conjoin." (From The Measure of All Things)

Random notes

Scientific Monthly of 1916 has notes on page 212 on metrication of medicine.

Petitions

There's a reasonable one here:

• http://www.petitiononline.com/usmetric/petition.html

But they seem to be a general loss:

• http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_petition

More on petitioning:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition

Freakonomics

Can we find numbers that we can study to draw conclusions about metrication (something more solid).

Influence

Consider wording of papers, letters etc to take into account aspects of influence.

• Famous people
• Being with the crowd (things like "95% of the worlds population uses metric" or "Most people X" or "Worlds Number 1 brand").

Other snippets to research

"In 1979 the USMB awarded a $65,000 contract to Damaus and Associates to conduct a nationwide survey to study how metrication would affect small businesses."

Promotional Stuff

• http://zazzle.com/gometric
• http://schlenkerenterprises.com/1-promotional.htm
• http://www.promopeddler.com/
• http://customrulers.net/plastic_rulers.html
• http://www.inkhead.com/

Educational

• http://www.starshipgaia.net/BobGeorge/StarshipGaiaLL/
• http://www.schoolmart.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=800
• http://www.eaieducation.com/531061.html
• http://www.davieschoolsupply.com/products/?productID=3124
• http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?deptId=MEASUREMENT&prodId=4650