our Metric system education at that time in the 60's was purely aimed at us kids, to memorize complex formulas for the conversion. There was no education, that I remember, on how to USE the metric system, and how simple it made measurements to be calculated.
The only protests I remember were protests by the U.S. Corporations not wanting to switch out all their english measurements.
U.S. Corporations that produced and used items, like bolts, nuts, packaging, automobiles, etc etc fought like hell to resist the changeover...............It was assumed that if we just transitioned over to the metric system with all new production, everything would transition over to the Metric System in the relatively new future. LOLOLOL.......Here we are, sixty years later...........
The only thing I can see that has caused any usage in the United States to use Metrics, was the influx of foreign cars, which used metric nuts and bolts and required metric tools to work on the vehicles. The tool corporations, at least thought that was a good thing, but only because they would make a ton more money selling both English and Metric tools. It opened a whole new world of sales potential to them.
Scientific and all medical fields were using it 100% long ago.........and for good reason, they were using the system that was being used around the world, except for the U.S. and Canada????? And, it was much easier to do calculations than to use the English system.
Me? I am still trying to figure out how to convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade all these years later. Hell, I have never been able to remember the formula for that......something like take 9/10ths and add or subtract something???????
The most we have accomplished as far as I can see, is listing both measurements on everything, and of course making the tool manufacturers a new profit center......
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