Today is world metrology day, celebrating the standardization of measure. How important is that? I will add here that when lofting “Courageous” S&S chose to give us the offsets in centimeters. They felt it would produce a more accurate set of lines. Remember this is 1973, It was not obvious where we would get tape measures in centimeters; we had to special order them. To further complicate things I seem to recall that the keel design was delivered to us in tenths of an inch. We had to order yet another set of tapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is world metrology day, celebrating the standardization of measure. How important is that? I will add here that when lofting “Courageous” S&S chose to give us the offsets in centimeters. They felt it would produce a more accurate set of lines. Remember this is 1973, It was not obvious where we would get tape … Continue reading WORLD METROLOGY DAY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-metrology-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}