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by C-dub
Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:56 am
Forum: New to CHL?
Topic: Just got CHL...they put the wrong height :/
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Re: Just got CHL...they put the wrong height :/

seamusTX wrote:The U.S. has been officially metric 1866. It just never caught on.

I had been thinking that Congress adopted the metric system in the 1790s. Several people pushed for it, but Congress moves at its own rate.

At least we pretty much got away from drams, rods, chains, fathoms, and the like, except for some specialties.

- Jim
I'm in the medical field and almost everything is metric.

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