On 9/1/2017 3:57 AM, rickman wrote:
Tom Biasi wrote on 8/31/2017 11:13 PM:

Well you and I remember differently. I was involved in the teaching of
the
metric system to the people of the USA. There was great resistance and
money
for the project soon got thin. When I studied engineering in the 70's we
used the metric system exclusively. We didn't call it SI, it was just the
way the scientific community did it.

What teaching were you involved in?Â* I assume it was companies asking
you to educate employees?Â* That is not related to the government.Â* It
also has nothing to do with the "resistance" from the average person.
No one was overly enthusiastic about it since it was a big change, but
people were willing to go with the flow.Â* Mostly they just didn't
understand it as there had been only notification that it would happen
and the education was only in the schools.Â* I believe it was industry
that resisted the change much to our detriment over the decades.

I don't know what you mean about metric not being "SI".Â* I didn't know
diddly about metric until I was in college (before the conversion
program started) and was taught the SI system.Â* I believe prior to SI
there was a metric system that had a few units that were different from
today's SI by some powers of 10.Â* CGS and dynes come to mind.

I gave you my experience and you disagree. That's it.
Here is a cut from a Wiki article of which seems to be my experience also.

"The U.S. Metric Study recommended that the United States implement a
carefully planned transition to the principal use of the metric system
over a decade. Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 "to
coordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric system in the
United States". Voluntary conversion was initiated, and the United
States Metric Board (USMB) was established for planning, coordination,
and public education. The public education component led to public
awareness of the metric system, but the public response included
resistance, apathy, and sometimes ridicule."