Regarding Chris Stokel-Walker’s review of Beyond Measure, opposition to the metric system hasn’t been limited to the UK (18 June, p 34). Back in the 1970s, the US Congress passed the Metric Conversion ...
As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...
Ever wondered what happened to our country’s conversion to the metric system? I did too. So, I did some digging and turned up some dead bodies in the process. Advertisement Article continues below ...