The Richwood Report

One of the basic necessities of sales and engineering calculations is the conversion of units of measure. For years I have used a little dos-based program called Units that lets you convert just about anything to just about anything, both simple and compound units. It was pretty good in its day but now it is something of an antique. The web brings us better things. Check out Allmeasures.com, a page for converting engineering units of almost any variable. The main page gives conversion factors in a table for, say, gallons to cubic meters or knots to meters/second. That is only the beginning. Choose a category(pressure, speed, mass, or whatever you want) and click on the CONVERTER button and you will be taken to a spreadsheet where you may enter a value in any cell and have all the other cells show the right value for other units. For example, in the DISTANCE category I entered 1 in the foot box and the equivalents of 1 foot appeared in all the other boxes--3 hands(height of horses), 12 inches, 0.3048 meter. This site can save you time.