Show Minute Change Is Made in Our Inch; Now 25.4 Mm. The American Inch unit of meas usements has lost two-mlllionths of Its former length In order that precise pre-cise measuring In the United States and England may be done on the same basis. The new definition of the inch Is now 23.4 millimeters a difference of about one-eight Inch in a mile as compared with the for mer American standard. This minute alteration was made necessary by modern precision manufacturing manu-facturing and the confusion arising from varying standards in the two countries Montreal Herald. |