Show ura 1 I METRIC SYSTEM 11 san francisco august 12 among messages of support received by the world trade club of san francisco in their campaign for world mide adoption of metric units of weight and measure a large number have come fro from mihe the foremost engineers of U S america and britannia john hays hammond great mining engineer wired world trade club from washington D C 1 I endorse metric system as the universal standard I 1 am convinced from an extensive study of 0 international commerce that the adoption of the met ric system would greatly facilitate promotion of the export trade of america thomas corwin mendenhall of the U S geodetic survey who has the added distinction of being the one to induce president harrison to promulgate the board ot of geographic names said in n a presidential address before before the engineers societies of metor liter grain these units are bound to come into universal use in ill the near future tho the prodigious advantages attainable thru their simplicity city economy and uniformity assure their heir worldwide world wide use american institute of electrical engineers has voted for the adoption of meter liter gram grain for general use by a large majority not one of the accurately standardized gages at present in ill use tise in british and american engineering workshops will need to be changed when the metric system is adopted Is the declaration made by the great inventor lord kelvin |