Originally Posted by
Italuminium
I can't believe how those blimey brits buid an empire on measures and standards as complicated as quantum physics, and on top of that beat the French with their beautiful, simple elegant metric system!
How the same nation that not only brought us the Rolls-Royce Merlin and of course the Raleigh DL-1
also managed to saddle us with Lucas electrics and ... well, there's no decent way of putting it, is there? That whole
Mod thing.
In re weights and measures, I have a 1854 copy of
The First Mate's Companion Book which basically is a compendium of crib sheets for doing shipping business worldwide at that time. The chapter on weight and measure exchange is longer than the chapter on wreck and salvage rights!