Those who are not satisfied with "pi times eye" in their private and professional lives need globally valid, uniform units of measurement, a standard. Since 1875, the International Office for Weights and Measures in Sèvres near Paris has been responsible for measuring and weighing. Here, for example, the so-called reference bodies for the original kilogram (a platinum-iridium cylinder) or the original meter (a platinum-iridium rod) are stored. The BIMP is responsible for the basic units length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, mass and luminous intensity. As far as the Urkilo is concerned, scientists are currently debating whether it has lost mass over the years. There is no dispute about the fact that one meter is the distance light travels in a 299,792,458th of a second. And there is no doubt that at Haas Schleifmaschinen we grind our Multigrind® grinding machines to the micrometer (0,000,001 m or 10-6 m) without any ifs or buts. However, no one knows whether and when the scientists will ever be able to deal with the original Swabian unit of measurement "Muggaseggele". Do you know what and how much a "Muggaseggel" is? Write it to us.

Thomas Bader