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Re: Horsepower (was Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Lon Stowell (lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com)
20 Oct 1995 12:11:17 -0700
In article <9510180520.AA002o8@folkmus.demon.co.uk> Dr John Barrow <jb@folkmus.demon.co.uk> writes:
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>I like the way the SI system takes the name of James Watt, for example, a
>classical chap no doubt versed in ye olde Brit Imp measure, and gives it to
>the metric system's unit of power. There's a sort of *hands across the sea*
>gesture of peace and unity about it. Don't you think?
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Given the "dear and close abiding love" of the British and French
throughout history, perhaps a few names dropped here and there
were the only way they could get the British to even consider
adopting the system?
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