Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet by John Bemelmans Marciano

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

John Bemelmans Marciano

310 pages first pub 2013 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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, ...

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