The debate between metric and imperial measurement systems has gone on for decades, but is one truly superior? This analysis ...

In the meantime, a new system of weights and measures, developed by French scientists following the Revolution of 1789, gained increasing international use. This metric system had as its fundamental ...

According to the Shanghai correspondent of the Times, the metric system has been applied in the ... has come into line with the majority of modern States, and no doubt her commerce and industry ...

The metric system is used by almost every country in the world, making it a universal language of measurement. The United States officially endorsed the metric system in 1975, but implementation has ...

That has me thinking back to my school days in the 1960s when I was educated in both systems so Britain might move seamlessly to the metric system a few years later. The United States government was ...

In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.