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The Effect of Metrication on Design
Author(s) -
Mains Ken
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1978.tb04150.x
Subject(s) - standardization , units of measurement , engineering , architectural engineering , aeronautics , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , operating system
Although Canada is in advance of the US in its progress toward metrication, the road to total conversion is neither short nor straight. Some of the obstacles confronting the Canadian designer are discussed—notably the difficulties entailed by hard conversion and standardization.