Conversion to Metric System: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1278, a Bill to Provide that the National Bureau of Standards Shall Conduct a Program of Investigation, Research, and Survey to Determine the Practicability of the Adoption by the United States of the Metric System of Weights and Measures, January 7, 1964Committee Serial No. 64. Considers legislation to authorize NBS to conduct a study of the practicality of U.S. conversion to metric system. |
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... products and parts for decades in both metric and English measures . REEDUCATION All of us would have to relearn ... engineers and machinists would be staggering , the auto industry ( a main opponent to conversion ) argues . Why , then ...
... products and parts for decades in both metric and English measures . REEDUCATION All of us would have to relearn ... engineers and machinists would be staggering , the auto industry ( a main opponent to conversion ) argues . Why , then ...
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... engineering would prefer a time - phased change over a pe- riod of 10 to 20 years to obtain maximum use of existing equipment . Procurement and supply people are opposed to the change because of costs , production delays , personnel ...
... engineering would prefer a time - phased change over a pe- riod of 10 to 20 years to obtain maximum use of existing equipment . Procurement and supply people are opposed to the change because of costs , production delays , personnel ...
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... engineering , busi- ness , and scientific communities , the defense posture ... production . They provide a fair basis for the exchange of goods and a ... Engineers Society 12th Annual Convention ] , Standards Engineering , vol . XV ...
... engineering , busi- ness , and scientific communities , the defense posture ... production . They provide a fair basis for the exchange of goods and a ... Engineers Society 12th Annual Convention ] , Standards Engineering , vol . XV ...
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... engineering problems . SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS In years past , the timespan between new technologies and ... production pur- poses to engineers using the English system . In order to avoid confusion , engi- neers and scientists who work ...
... engineering problems . SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS In years past , the timespan between new technologies and ... production pur- poses to engineers using the English system . In order to avoid confusion , engi- neers and scientists who work ...
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... engineers and atomic physicists , nuclear scientists , space scientists ... engineer increased by several hundred percent the estimated efficiency of a nuclear ... products such as machinery for industrial cus- tomers who use the same ...
... engineers and atomic physicists , nuclear scientists , space scientists ... engineer increased by several hundred percent the estimated efficiency of a nuclear ... products such as machinery for industrial cus- tomers who use the same ...
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1st sess 59th Congress 87th Cong adopting the metric advantages American Association American industry American Standards Association areas ASTIN avoirdupois bill to provide Bureau of Standards centimeters Chairman changeover Committee on Commerce conduct a program conversion cost decimalized inch Department of Defense determine the practicability economic Edward Teller English system English units estimated export FISCHELIS FLAX fractions Go Metric Government Printing Office gram inch system kilogram machine tool MAGNUSON manufacturing measurement system Metric Association metric countries metric sys metric system metric units million National Bureau percent pound problems Product Engineering program of investigation proposed question Russia Science and Astronautics scientific scientists Secretary of Commerce Senator MCGEE Standards Engineering Standards shall conduct study to determine survey to determine system of measurement system of units system of weights tion U.S. Congress U.S. customary units U.S. Government Printing U.S. Senate WARREN G Washington weights and measures yard