Metric system

Sorry circuitsmith; I meant to say Telefunken. “Grammophone” has different acceptable spellings, such as Grammophon and Gramophone, according to the New German Dictionnary by Cassels. “Grammophone” is not acceptable. And a Gramophoneplatte is a … record.

In another post I related to a summer job I had laying out survey lines for gas pipelines. A surveyor’s tape is in feet, with the last foot calibrated in 1/10s of a foot, since surveyors do not use inches.

An old codger got up from hs bench, walked over and asked me: “Hey sonny, it that there one of them tapes with ten inches to the foot?”.