On this day in 1866, an act of Congress, signed into law by President Andrew Johnson, made it “lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system in all contracts, dealings or court proceedings.”
Our best shops are operating in metric and measure in Microns- millionths of a meter.
How large is a micron?
Happy Metric Day. And a hat tip to David Parker of Metric Machining and Mike Preston of Micron Manufacturing.
And to all of the engineers, machinists and technicians who call the metric system “theirs.”
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Tag: U.S.Metric System Adoption
You may not know it but on this day in 1973 Ohio became the first state in the U.S. to post metric distance signs along I-71.
These new signs showed the distance in both miles and kilometers. The metric system, though standard in many nations around the world, never quite caught on in the United States, except on major-league baseball stadium fences — and on that highway in Ohio.
And that is why Richard and Joan Parker in the Summer of 1973 decided to call our company Metric Machining when the company began on September 1, 1973.
They wanted their company to be on the cutting edge………… and they’re still waiting for the rest of the country to catch up!
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