| ??? 01/17/06 21:15 Read: times |
#107651 - cultural differences II Responding to: ???'s previous message |
I think Central Europe was metric since the dawn of the Austro-Hungarian empire, so I never met anything else until started electronics... Interestingly, some of the parts produced within the"Eastern block" (there was a formal economical "union" but I don't know how was the proper english translation - an acronym coming from it was often used to denote if a construction was "pure" or needed "western" = hardly obtainable pars) were metric (often the connectors), others tried to be "compatible"... One unrelated thing, vodka is (was) measured in Russia in grams rather than (milli-/centi-/deci-)liters. The default measure - stakhan (glass) - is - depending on area - 100g or 200g. Jan Waclawek |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| what a group | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ah well | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Strange happenings | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I grew up using only metric in Denmark, | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| metric | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Mexico metric | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Complex units | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| eggs and dozen | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Depends | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| the voltage is one thing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Only one | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| UK Mains is 240V | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| any guess how much copper would be saved | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| copper saving | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Nominal | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Possibly? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| imperial | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Who ? Us ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| rockets and cars | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The right side of the road | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| driving directions | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| oh yeah | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ignore? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The Space Shuttle and a horse's behind | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Brunel | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ariane | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That was Ariane 2 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Mars shot | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Forgot that! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Imperial | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| collars and cuffs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Cheap Shot. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| British and Metric | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| apparently | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| kilogram | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| kilogram? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Prototype | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| BA | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Whitworth | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Whit | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Whitworth...and then BSP | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| BSP | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Eh? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Here | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re: Here | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What about the Japanese and Swiss? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Speed limits | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| More changes afoot | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| they did that in Sweden | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| traffic circles | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Traffic Circles? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Roundabouts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Fun you say that ! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Don't mention aircraft | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Canada | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| TTT | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| cultural differences II | 01/01/70 00:00 |