Monthly Archives: March 2015

A skirmish across the Pond

Posted on 2015-03-27 by Ramsden

Readers may be interested in a recent exchange of views between Clay Rogers, a journalist with a newspaper in Iowa, and Paul Trusten, Vice President of UKMA’s sister organisation in the USA. Likes(0)Dislikes(0)

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Signs of the times

Posted on 2015-03-20 by Ramsden

We compare the Government’s different approaches to two separate proposals for new road signs. Likes(0)Dislikes(0)

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Whitworth’s forgotten legacy

Posted on 2015-03-13 by Ramsden

Whitworth is famous for the eponymous screw thread, and for his promotion of standard measures and interchangeability that brought about an engineering revolution. Less well known are his enthusiasm for decimal measurement and his opposition to the introduction of the … Continue reading →

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A Biblical specification and a problem solved (almost)

Posted on 2015-03-06 by ronniec

We are justifiably proud in England of the legal principles laid down in Magna Carta in 1215, but less supportive of its command, “Let there be one measure …”. However, weights and measures laws are as old as civilisation. In … Continue reading →

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