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Whatever Happened to the Metric System How America Kept Its Feet 1st Edition by John Bemelmans Marciano ISBN 1608194752 978-1608194759

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Author(s): John Bemelmans Marciano
ISBN(s): 9781608199419, 160819941X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.85 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1608194752 

ISBN 13: 978-1608194759

Author: John Bemelmans Marciano

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, just as American measurements are woven into the ways we think. John Marciano chronicles the origins of measurement systems, the kaleidoscopic array of standards throughout Europe and the thirteen American colonies, the combination of intellect and circumstance that resulted in the metric system’s creation in France in the wake of the French Revolution, and America’s stubborn adherence to the hybrid United States Customary System ever since. As much as Whatever Happened to the Metric System? is a tale of quarters and tenths, it is a human drama, replete with great inventors, visionary presidents, obsessive activists, and science-loving technocrats.

Anyone who reads this inquisitive, engaging story will never read Robert Frost’s line “miles to go before I sleep” or eat a foot-long sub again without wondering, Whatever happened to the metric system?

Table of contents:

  1. The Day the Metric Died

  2. Thomas Jefferson Plans

  3. American Paris

  4. Metric Systems

  5. The Decimation of Everything

  6. Napoleonic Measures

  7. Lighthouses of the Sky

  8. The Internationalists

  9. A Universal Coin

  10. The Battle of the Standards

  11. Standard Time

  12. A Toolkit for the World

  13. The Great Calendar Debate

  14. Shocks to the System

  15. A Metric America

  16. Isolated

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