Metric America (1973)
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Metric America (1973)
Uses animation to highlight reasons for the United States upcoming metric conversion. Introduces the meter, liter, kilogram and celsius. Emphasizes prefixes and stresses the decimal nature of the metric system. Points out the benefits of conversion.
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Metric conversion is inevitable but, the longer it is delayed, the more it will cost to convert!
Yes agree with you industries are already wasting money to produce equipment for two kinds of measurement system.
Cost convert ís no good for rèfuse modernize. Example: US Government guess cost change all road signs about 500•10⁶ US$ in ≈year 1995, year 2024 probably ≈ 1•10⁹ US$. Compare with money use for war in Iraq and Afganistan 100s • 10⁹ US$, money give Ukraina ≈100•10⁹ US$, US Government can easy require change and pay for it.
As a German, I can't belive, that the USA is still using imperial after all these years. Even a first grade school child here in Europe can read and understand a metric ruler with cm and mm. No explanation needed. On the other hand, we have instruction videos for measuring tapes with yards and inches for Americans (?!) here on UA-cam.
We don’t use the Imperial System. We use US Customary units, and metric units as well. Children in the USA have school rulers with both inch and cm scales.
I wish that America would go fully metric. :-(
Metrication must be done mandatorily, not voluntarily. I live in a country where officially use metric but know both non-metric and metric units...
I agree. Here in South Africa it was mandatory. Then, became metric with just about everything, including only that taught at schools.
We don’t like coercion in the United States.
What would be the point of forcing people to switch?
The industries that saw an advantage to it switched.
American made cars use metric nuts and bolts (wheel diameter is in inches yet width is in mm)
Medicine and most scientist switched.
Some engineers use it.
If it really was costing companies so much they would have switched.
Companies that export probably have measured their products in metric and list both measurements in their catalog and online.
I frequently research products online.
Many times the measurements are in metric.
I just convert them my self.
I have never once not bought a product becase it was measured only in metric.
50 years later...
I read a book on Data Processing (IT) in school which predicted that by 1980 America will convert to the metric system.
We should also switch from our current system of time with A.M. and P.M. to military time. It’s much easier. Getting rid of the bi-annual time change would be nice as well.
I think the Nuts bolts and lumber are going to be the big problems. Metric is coming slow. I work Construction and want to use the system now. My teachers told us in 1961 that we would be using Metric when we get out of School. Sill waiting...
I suggest that you read themetricmaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Metrication-in-Australia-built-2013-06-24.pdf from page 34 (9.2 Building And Construction)
The main warning is "Use Milimetres - and Metres and Kilometres when necessary. DO NOT USE CENTIMETRES.
Please read www.metricationmatters.com/docs/centimetresORmillimetres.
where you will find the following
"If you choose millimetres as your small unit for a metrication upgrade then the metric transition is smooth, rapid, and so economical that the companies involved save so much money that their net profits increase dramatically. Typically, metrication upgrades in all Australian building trades were completed in under a year and definitely in under two years - the best transition that I directly observed was a group of plumbers and gas fitters who, with good planning, made their metric transition in less than a day.
On the other hand, if you choose centimetres as your small unit (as chosen by Australian textile industries), then you should expect your metric transition to be painfully slow, bitterly fought and enormously expensive, not only in financial terms but also in terms of ongoing human conflict. It's hard to know how long a metric transition using centimetres
will take as no one has completed one yet. Suffice to say that 38 years is too short (1970 till 2008) in Australia and a better estimate might be 100 to 200 years with ongoing annual expenses of (say 10% of gross turnover per year see
www.metricationmatters.com/docs/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf ).
For the latter estimate, I choose the nation of France as an example where they are still struggling with the confusion and expense (in both training and practice) of having two decimal points in building drawing numbers; an example is a building dimension of 1200 millimetres as 1.20.0 meaning 1 metre 20 centimetres and 0 millimetres."
The same reasoning applies to other units, such as Litres and Kilograms. You don't need (and should not use) the deci, centi, deka, and hecta prefixes. I note that all packaged food items in our Australian supermarkets are labelled in Grams, Killograms, Millilitres or Litres (NEVER Centilitres, which I have noticed on some European packages items.)
Whitworth Nuts and Bolts are still sold in Australian hardware stores after over 40 years of metric usage and are described by their width in fractions of an inch but their length in Milimetres. Unified Screw Threads - UNC, UNF are also sold and, of course, metric sized Nuts and Bolts are also available
Wood screws are still specified by "Gauge" with the length specified in Millimetres.
Timber (lumber) is dimensioned in Milimetres (e.g. 90 * 45) and sold in multiples of 300 or 600 mm in length - 300 mm approximates the Foot (e.g. 1800, 2400, 3000, 3600 etc.) - These are "hard" conversions.
Pipe, conduit and their fittings are still the same sizes (They have to be to fit older installations) However, what was 1/2 inch, 3/4 inch, inch and 1 1/4 inch etc. items are now described by their approximate metric equivalent of 12 mm, 19 mm (sometimes 20 mm), 25 mm and 32 mm etc. (A "soft" conversion.)
While it may be out of your range of experience I note that, while electrical cable is sold in 100 Metre rolls, communication cable (Cat 5, Cat 6 etc) is sold in 305 Meter rolls. (305 Metres is a "soft" conversion of 1000 Feet.).
Australia change by require use only 3 units in construction: mm, m and km. Most construction never need unit smaller than mm.
we were supposed to have done this 30 years ago
Actually as early as 1804! Thomas Jefferson had a shipment of metric standards that were going to serve as the U.S.’s official standards. Well, the ship carrying those standards sank.
I want to switch to the bramboot/wackle/tuttle system.
I think I just came....
@6:39 - Here we are, over 40 years later, and thinking about (American/gridiron) football, the term '20-meter line' doesn't quite have that same ring to it as '20-yard line'.
+johnnysama don't need to introduce it everywhere, sports can stay untouched
As a Canadian I could say with confidence that we use metric maybe %50 of the time in our daily lives. Mostly to measure fuel purchases, road distance, and temperatures. We still use feet, inches, pounds and tons to measure weight. Informally, you will have someone give a distance in a mile or half mile
When countries converted to metric, as far as I know, it was decided that a few things would not. One of them was sports fields.
Here in South Africa, incidentally, on the rugby field, the 25 yard line is called the 22 metre line, even although it's the same line.
They should try it out in the CFL first.
The Indy 500 would be the Indy 805, not the Indy 830.
They could up the ante and make it the Indy 1000.
Change become little longer race: Indy 1000
Except we dont make anything anymore
I could get use to the metric system, but I refuse to call a cookie a damn biscuit
used to
What is metric time ? I can't seem to find an answer
How many inches are 1 yard? I can't seem to find an answer. What is the imperial time by the way?
there is no metric time it doesn't really work but meh all other units are metric soo yea
Can do a UA-cam search for metric time. There are a few videos about it.
@@felixbeutin9530 there actual is. France used it from about 1793-1805. I forget if there are 10 metric hours in a day (that sounds correct), or 10 before midday & 10 after midday. There are 100 metric minutes in a metric hour, and 100 metric seconds in a metric minute.
my school stole this
I believe this is in the public domain.
I say that we make the Metric Change!
yawn.....
Who else is here because of your teacher made you?
Too bad we didn't officially do this back in the 1970s and be done with it. But no, metric is foreign! How dare anyone try to force it on us Americans? Oh brother.
England's slave units also foreign, ha, ha, ha.
Meter Not Metre
As the grassroots guy in Canada who fought PM Trudeau, lost a job over it, but sucessfully beat him and kept a 'freedom of choce' in 'how one thinks' in measureing things, I wish you all 'The Best of Luck; against all of Big Brother's silly servant; empire-building impositions.
I saw this film in school when it was new. I didn't like it then and I still don't. Even the flaws of Metrication are shown in this film. Now is the time for De-Metrication.
"De-metrication"...
In what world would that make any sense?
Robert Cline I have a friend who words in the Dept. of Transportation in my home state. About 5 to 10 years ago the state finally stopped trying to use Metric. Everyone was glad of the end of the nonsense. All of the infrastructure is built to customary standards. Using Metric was artificial to the nature of what existed.
This country has over 3 1/2 million square Miles and over 300 million people. All of the development of that territory and it's people are built on the customary model. It would make about as much sense as giving up the English Language for Latin or Esperanto.
"Everyone was 'glad' of the end of that nonsense"
Who are you to generalize the thoughts of 300 million people?
Do you really think that they would be 'glad' to let people like you be in charge solely to reverse our country's progression?
If you don't live under a rock, you would probably know that our nation's military, space program, hospitals, and a majority our international businesses have already made the change to adopt the metric system, a globally accepted system designed for the purpose of simplicity, precision, and efficiency.
After all the hard work they went through finally start benefiting from adopting the metric system, do you really think they'll spend MORE money to undo all their efforts just to please you?
kitiowa What are the flaws?
Rob749s They admitted that the railroads for one will have to continue with US measurements for obvious reasons.
The film is flawed in it's representation of both US and Metric.