[Jewelry making - Article 00511] - Re: [Orchid] Metric system

[AlanRevere]

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    One of the worst things the English left us was their measurement
    system. Here we are, the most industrialized country in the world,
    still using thirty-seconds of an inch, drams, B & S gauges and
    yards. The US was the first country to issue metric money in the
    1780s, and we are the last to use what is a clearly superior
    measuring system. It makes no sense, until you consider the huge
    cost and effort to change over industries like automobile
    manufacture. 

    All measuring devices are available in metric. I encourage all my
    students to think metric. Making jewelry is challenging enough,
    without having to use an arcane and cumbersome measuring system. 

Alan
Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts
760 Market Street - Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: 415-391-4179 fax: 415-391-7570
web: http://www.revereacademy.com
email: alan AT revereacademy.com
or alanrevere AT aol.com


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