[PDF.60tz] Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet

Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet

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 | #137569 in Books |  2015-09-15 |  2015-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .33 x.88 x5.52l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Of course we won't be truly metric until your favorite team kicks off at the 50 meter line and ...|By George G. McDonald|An interesting revelation of the development of metric measure as a parochial (French) system to widespread adoption except in the US. Metric measure has long been legal for commerce in the US but only slowly adopted here. Wine, spirits and even beer (Coors)| ||“An indispensable guide for understanding our world's centuries-long process of inching toward standardization.” ―Wall Street Journal|“National and international politics, treaties, wars--all play a role in seeing the full pi

The system of measurement for most of the world is the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s the United States appeared ready to switch from American standard measurement. The reasons it never happened get to the root of who we think we are, just as American measurements are woven into the ways we think. John Marciano chronicles the origins of measurement systems, the kaleidoscopic array of standards throughout Europe and the thirteen American colonies, the combi...

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