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Base Resources Limited (AIM:BSE, ASX:BSE) CFO Kevin Balloch talks Proactive through the company’s September quarter highlights. Prices for ilmenite and rutile improved during the period while zirco...
Complete undercarriage Aftermarket range for Cat 6020B Hydraulic Mining Shovel now available First-to-market, ‘non-captive’ Aftermarket solution offered for the Cat 602...
Inch Tue Apr 13 2004 at 21:35:59 Curiously, the inch is exactly 2.54 cm. The story goes that Henry Ford was frustrated at the lack of standardization of parts measurements and things; the US at that time used various different inches, while the cm was fixed. So Ford asked Swedish inventor Carl Edward Johansson to make some end-gauge for Ford's factories. Johansson was happy to, so while Congress mucked around trying to come up with a standard, he picked the handy 2.54 cm to an inch that we know today and delivered the blocks. The 2.54 conversion allowed a switch from metric to imperial thread...