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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv41newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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-sider the decimal division and use a unit of 1200 milli-metres as has already been suggested. Should the United States Government then adopt the 14 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING January, 1928 Metric System as proposed in BILL H R 15420, nowbefore Congress? It seems to me that it should not forthe following reasons: 1st. Because we are asked to adopt a system whose unithas been found to be a mistake and therefore simply anarbitrary unit. 2nd. It is a system which was discarded in its ownhome until the people were compelled to use it or sufferpenalties. engineers, professors in engineering, and experts in alllines of engineering and manufacture. 14th. One of the strongest proofs of the superiority ofthe English System is that argument which is always con-sidered final and unanswerable, namely: The Survival ofthe Fittest. It has survived all over the world and still survives.This was shown by the French nation themselves. Theytried the Metric System, then when Napoleon repealed the
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Electric Locomotive on the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad—Can Operate From Trolley or Storage Battery Power 3rd. It is not a perfect system and is capable of muchimprovement. Much of the original system has alreadybeen discarded and more should be. 4th. In contrast with the Metric, we have the EnglishSystem which has the advantage that it is more naturaland convenient, being based on the everyday needs of thepeople. It is more simple, using fewer figures. It is less liable to error on account of using fewer 5th.6th.figures.7th.8th. It answers all requirements. It is used by the great majority of the people ofthe world, and they are satisfied. 9th. It is universally used in navigation sea units.10th. It does not require penalties to compel people touse it. 11th. The adoption of the Metric System would meana mixture of both systems. This is true of the nationsthat have adopted it, including the French nation as well. 12th. The Metric System is still in a state of change.N

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  • booksubject:Locomotives
  • bookpublisher:New_York___A__Sinclair_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
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