Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) have developed a metric scale to assist tourism providers in tapping the ...

Under the title of "Vestiges of Premetric Weights and Measures in Metric-System Europe" the Harvard Bureau of International Research is publishing the results of a year's research conducted in ...

Ever since the general acceptance of his thermo-metric scale, there has been much discussion as to why Fahrenheit chose such an apparently inconvenient numerical relationship as 32° and 212° for ...

A nanometer (nm) is a unit of length in the metric system, defined as one billionth (10-9 ... nanometer a derived unit used primarily to measure the atomic and molecular scale of materials and the ...