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Marciano, John Bemelmans.
Subjects
Metric system -- Miscellanea.
Metric system -- History.
Units of measurement.
Standards of length.
Weights and measures.
Time -- Systems and standards.
Calendars -- History.
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Marciano, John Bemelmans.
Metric system -- Miscellanea.
Metric system -- History.
Units of measurement.
Standards of length.
Weights and measures.
Time -- Systems and standards.
Calendars -- History.
MARC Display
Whatever happened to the
metric
system
? :
how
America
kept
its
feet
/ John Bemelmans Marciano.
by
Marciano, John Bemelmans.
Bloomsbury, c2014.
Call #:
389.16 M319w
Subjects
Metric
system
-- Miscellanea.
Metric
system
-- History.
Units of measurement.
Standards of length.
Weights and measures.
Time -- Systems and standards.
Calendars -- History.
ISBN:
9781608194759 (hc.)
1608194752 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Metric
system
:
how
America
kept
its
feet
Edition:
First U.S. edition
Description:
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-300) and index.
Contents:
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
-- Isolated -- Appendix A. U.S. customary and
metric
measures -- Appendix B. Customary
metric
measures.
Summary:
Most of the rest of the world is on the
metric
system
, and for a time in the 1970s
America
appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. 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.
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