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Whatever happened to the metric system?: how America kept its feet
Whatever happened to the metric system?: how America kept its feet
Author
Marciano, John Bemelmans
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
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From the Book - First U.S. edition
The day the metric died
Thomas Jefferson plans
American Paris
Metric systems
The decimation of everything
Napoleonic measures
Lighthouses of the sky
The internationalists
A universal coin
The battle of the standards
Standard time
A toolkit for the world
The Great Calendar Debate
Shocks to the metric system
A metric America
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Appendix A. U.S. customary and metric measures
Appendix B. Customary metric measures.
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History
Metric system
Metric system -- History
Weights and measures
Weights and measures -- United States
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9781608194759
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