https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1 Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2017-08-16 17:15:01 UTC 2025-10-23 13:13:40 UTC hello@padlet.com halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181300925 1. "You will get my American system ruler when you pry it from my cold dead hands"]]> 2017-08-16 17:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181300925 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181480854 To quote #1: This person is saying that he doesn't want to change the American System and that many people wanted. He was standing up for himself and the system he loved. ]]> 2017-08-17 16:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181480854 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485073 2017-08-17 17:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485073 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485481 "It permits nations, individuals, or corporations who would otherwise be hampered in their efforts at communicating, trading, or sharing information. Think of it as a common language. If everyone in the world speaks English, it's very easy to do business, travel, and engage in trade. The same is true of a single, standardized system of weights and measures."]]> 2017-08-17 17:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485481 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485629 "Much of the world started moving to the metric system in the late nineteenth century. You've written that the United States didn't follow, because of “the humble screw thread.” For want of a screw, the metric system was lost?"]]> 2017-08-17 17:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485629 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485768 "Whatever the drawbacks of the English units, the inch was divided in ways that made sense to the mechanics and machinists of the era: it was built around "2s" rather than "10s," with each inch subdivided in half and in half again—and so forth. This permitted various sizes of screw thread to have some logical correspondence to all the other increments. The same was true of the sizes of other small parts that were essential modern machinery."]]> 2017-08-17 17:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485768 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485971 "Labeling it “the worst idea” ]]> 2017-08-17 17:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181485971 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181486496  “People say it’s expensive, but the economic benefits outweigh the cost"]]> 2017-08-17 17:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181486496 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181487099 2017-08-17 17:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181487099 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181487253 2017-08-17 17:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181487253 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181488045 2017-08-17 17:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181488045 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181488600 2017-08-17 17:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181488600 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181488700 2017-08-17 17:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181488700 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181488909 The metric system is important because it helps us measure the correct amount of stuff to use and be enough or to much or even to little of the amount.]]> 2017-08-17 17:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181488909 halire1 https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181489313 The adoption of another country's weights and measures—or in the case of the metric system, the rest of the world's weights and measures—seems an infringement on national sovereignty]]> 2017-08-17 17:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/halire1/gh4ekyf5zaq1/wish/181489313