Metric Power; why and how We are Going Metric

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T. Nelson, Jan 1, 1974 - Metric system - 144 pages
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Discusses the present system of measurements in the United States and the distinct advantages of using the metric system, including its effect on business, industry, and the individual.

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Contents

All Over but the Shouting
13
How Our Customary System
35
MetricSystem Advantages
48
Copyright

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Metric power; why and how we are going metric
Richard Deming
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About the author (1974)

Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. His poems have appeared in Sulfur, Field, the Indiana Review and Mandorla, as well as "Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present." He is the author of "Let's Not Call It Consequence" and "Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading." He is a lecturer at Yale.

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TitleMetric Power; why and how We are Going Metric
AuthorRichard Deming
PublisherT. Nelson, 1974
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 21, 2006
ISBN0840763808, 9780840763808
Length144 pages
  
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