[ Julian Dyer wrote in 150910 MMDigest:

> And if you like huge machinery, paper-making offers some of the
> very finest, making reels of 120 tons at 1200 meters per second --
> a remarkable mix of fragile and massive.

Something must have gotten confused in the conversion from English to
metric or ???

Julian talks about paper production speeds of 1200 meters per second
-- this is something like 2684 miles per hour [4320 km/hr].  As far
as I know, modern paper mills operate in the range of 60 to 100 miles
per hour.

Spencer Chase