Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While most nations use the metric system—those units of decimals ...
Most people think the U.S. never adopted the metric system — but that’s not the whole story. Long before Europe standardized its measurements, America quietly implemented a system based on the very ...
The French government adopted this new metric system on April 7, 1795. A conference including scientists from France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and Italy worked from 1798 to 1799 ...
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