The intriguing tale of why the United States has never adopted the metric system, and what that says about us. The American standard system of measurement is a
In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the n
Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised
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The epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement. Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable