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10 Real-Life Examples Of Why American Measurements Are Better Than The Communist Metric System
Even simple minds can figure out metric because everything is multiples of ten. I kilometer- 1000 meters, one meter - 100 centimeters, one centimeter - 10 millimeters.
Nothing is worse that watching a hot girl on Instagram showing me her latest and greatest recipe and then says "Start with 200 millimeters of water".
When I was in high school my parents would be watching the weather and ask me " what is that in Fahrenheit" My Grandmother from England lived with us and she had all those British measures to really confused us.
Never really see any great engineering out of ole Canada. At least France has the tin can Airbus to show for their use of the metric system!
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lijah McCoy
Elijah McCoy was a Canadian mechanical engineer and inventor, best known for devising lubrication systems and devices for trains. His parents escaped Kentucky via the Underground Railroad and he was born in Colchester, Ontario, in 1844. He passed away in 1929, at the age of 85.McCoy was interested in mechanics from a young age, and left to study in Scotland when he was 15. When he returned, racial barriers made it difficult to find employment. This led him to accept a job as fireman and oiler for Michigan Central Railroad, where he invented a lubricating cup that allowed trains to run continuously without having to pause for manual lubrication. This would be the first of the 57 patents he obtained over the course of his life, many of which were related to lubrication.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell is arguably one of the most famous Canadian engineers, known as the inventor of the telephone. Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and immigrated to Canada in 1870. Throughout his life, he was a scientist, inventor, and engineer focused on aeronautics, hydrofoils, and optical telecommunications.Bell is credited with inventing the first functional telephone and co-founding AT&T, a major telecommunications company in the United States. Bell’s mother was partially deaf, and his father taught elocution to the deaf, influencing his later career choice working as a teacher of the deaf.
Bell's early career was with a deaf institute in Boston when he "invented" his telephone, not Canada (his mom was deaf - thus his interest).
Some say he stole from a prior patent applicant, Elisha Gray.There were many patent lawsuits.
He wasn't exactly a Canadian engineer, having grown up in UK and spent two years in college in London before moving to Ontario where he lived less than a year before immigrating to Boston.
The first call was placed to his electrician co-developer, Watson, in Boston. Bell later worked in Washington DC and late in life worked to establish The National Geographic magazine.
Bell was a genius but most of his adult life was spent working in the US, not Canada.
But he was buried in Nova Scotia so we can agree to let Canada claim him as their own.