TEDxMelbourne - Pat Naughtin - Saving Millions with the Metric System

Pat Naughtin presents the history of the metric system and then highlights how the different ways which the way we measure things can cost billions of dollars and even endanger our health. Pat is is a world expert on metrication and presents from his incredible experience as a boiler making, through piano building and solar energy, to weaving and wool classing.

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Education

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• metrication
• metric system
• measurement
• measurement system
• imperial measurement
• universal measure
• TEDx
• TEDxMelbourne

[barnsworth80]

someone creating a base 10 system a long time ago does not make him an inventer of the metric system. Otherwise I could invent a new, better metric system this afternoon! :-)

'S.I.' and BIPM are the bibles of metric. Find out what each stands for and you get an idea where the metric system was invented and not be so xenophobic about it (just because it's not English).

[amos083]

Actually, a 1-m long pendulum swings at a cycle of close to 2 seconds; a 1-second pendulum is about 0.25m long. (Source: WolframAlpha site)