Current engineering topics: A substitute for the metric system

A measure providing decimal divisions of the English system of weights and measures has been introduced as a substitute for the proposed compulsory metric system. Advocates of this substituted measure claim that it affords all the advantages of decimal notation, which they claim to be the only merit of the metric system, and at the same time preserves the convenience, facility and utility which are inseparable from the accustomed measures of length and weight in this country. All that is claimed for this bill is that it will tend to help in the improvement and development of our present system. Engineers who considered this new legislation are of the opinion that it would only complicate the present usage of our divisions of weights, measures and coins without adding materially to the improvement of our present system.