[TheForge] Re: A little metrology humor - YAK

[Andy Vida]

Dann Johnson wrote:

> American Scientists have used the metric system for many decades.  My
> fathers 1935 Engineering books had metric "stuff".

	True, but the applied engineering and resulting
	manufacturing was almost exclusively non-metric.
	My point it we did just fine without it and to
	say that metric is somehow inherently superior
	is a crock of nonsense. Metric's fine, too, just
	not better.
> 
> Even those American made, Forest City, Iowa   Winnebago  Brand Motor homes
> are built using metrics.

	Were they building Winnies in 1940?