No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and measure among units of length (inches, feet, yards, miles) or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French ...

The history of the metric system in the United States When British settlers colonized what would become the United States, they brought their system of measurement with them: a hodgepodge of Anglo ...

Reader’s Digest spoke to experts in the metric system to find out. Here’s what we learned about the history of the metric system, and the reasons why the United States hasn’t fully adopted ...

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 ...