[TenTec] Response to Rick about Imperial (BSA) Standards

[geoffrey mendelson]

On 4/26/2016 3:43 PM, Arthur Lewis wrote:
> *We were given the same information in our Ohio schools, The American
> system came from the English.*
>
It's proper name is Avoirdupois. It came from France to England, and 
possibly from Florence to France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoirdupois

The French developed the metric system as part of getting rid of the 
monarchy and replacing it with a rational system of government.

France at the time was the center of Science and Mathematics in the 
western world, and the "lingua franca" (the language of international 
trade) was French.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.