Welcome to a hilariously bewildering collection of American metric system fails, a tribute to the times Americans said, “No ...
The metric system typically wasn’t taught in American elementary schools prior to 1972, but that changed in 1974 with the Metric Education Amendments. “Teaching the metric system in American ...
When the Reagan administration cut funding for the U.S. Metric Board in 1982, the agency closed its doors and the movement ...
It’s the American Way. Lengthy investigation suggests that this is about the only explanation for why the United States as a whole evades the metric system while most of the rest of the world ...
In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.
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 ...