alt Hacker NewsBritish standard whitworth lives on as the thread which attaches cameras to tripods I think.
I once liberated some simmilar bolts from a broken out tunnel wall at Tottenham Court Road. We machined into tensile coupons and they just stretch out like pulling a toffee bar!
It's amusing these days to think of imperial measurements as a great standardising force in the world in light of our inability to go metric.
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Also in the ending of Cars 2 https://youtu.be/9WSNKsgVsfk?t=5
>It's amusing these days to think of imperial measurements as a great standardising force in the world in light of our inability to go metric.
As always it is not quite so simple. Another early standard thread was the British Association. Proposed 1884, and adopted 1903. It was the recommended thread for small diameters (even by the British Standard institute), and is still seen in electrical terminals, and some small instruments.
BA threads are metric!
> British standard whitworth lives on as the thread
And pipe fittings
Hercules in India still sells roadster bikes with Withworth threads.