Showing posts with label Fire Hydrant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fire Hydrant. Show all posts
January 10, 2023
March 21, 2018
Measurement And Standards Are Our Friends
And measurement is the foundation of scientific research and creating standards.
Scientific research and measurement are about exploration, discovery, and innovation.
Further, it is about finding the facts; it is objective; it is truth; it is essential to maintaining integrity.
Standards also help to ensure dependability, because there is a common reference and you know what you are getting.
A great true story that demonstrates the importance of measurements and standards is the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.
This was the third worst urban inferno in American history.
It destroyed over 1,500 building across 140 acres.
Fire engines responded from as far as New York and Virginia.
But the problem was that they invariably could not help.
Why?
Because their fire hose couplings could not fit on the Baltimore fire hydrants--they were not standardized.
Without standards, we don't have interoperability.
We don't have a reference that everyone can go by.
It's as if we're all working on our own desert islands.
This defeats the power in numbers that make us together greater than the sum of our individual parts.
Science and technology help us advance beyond just ourselves and today.
Measurement and standardization help us to build a better and stronger society. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
April 8, 2014
Hydrant Hat
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