Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a rich aunt with the children home from school, threw open its doors for a party Disraeli would have loved: for 2,400 guests, 2,400 bottles of champagne, and, to soften the glitter of the great marble halls, ?1,400 worth of flowers. The London Evening Standard glowed: "Diamonds, champagne, beautiful women in lovely gowns, men wearing dazzling displays of honors and medals. There is no doubt that last night's party was the most generous since...
...used to get when there were only four? And if not, is something real being sacrificed for benefits that it would be hard to define?" The Economist concluded: "The old safe world in which the 'loose connection' flourished no longer exists, and unless the Commonwealth revises the standard of conduct and cooperation which it expects from its members it will become merely a sentimental fiction. There is no virtue in mere size-'the larger the assembly of sheep, the more it appeals to the wolves.' A sprawling collection of nations with no common obligations, with...
Lined Bar. This is THE meter: the standard length in terms of which all the world's measurements are defined. Even men who speak in pounds or poods, kilometers or versts, acres or mu depend ultimately upon the meter bar in Paris. The subtler units of measurement, such as dynes, electron-volts and curies, are based...
Obviously, it required exact and uniform standards of measurement. Lack of standard measurements messed up the trade between the American colonies; though the U.S. Constitution directed Congress to fix the standards of weights & measures, Congress did nothing about it for 80 years. Congressmen were passionately interested in the subject, but they could not agree. Repeatedly Washington begged Congress to pass a standardization law; in 1795 he suggested that the U.S. adopt the new French metric system. Jefferson thought he had a better idea: he wanted a system based on the length of a uniform cylindrical pendulum which...
...Realize?" Meanwhile, more & more things (not including international relations) came to be held together by screws, bolts and nuts. Their shape and kind were in chaos. In 1861 the Franklin Institute got together a group of engineers who adopted the design of William Sellers as the standard U.S. screw thread. Without it, the unified U.S. railway system could hardly have been built...