Author: United States Metric BoardPublisher:
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
U.S. Metric Board
Author: United States Metric BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
U.S. Metric Board Annual Report
Author: United States Metric BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Nominations to the U.S. Metric Board
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and SpacePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Oversight Hearing, United States Metric Board
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and TechnologyPublisher:
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
Author: John Bemelmans MarcianoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 160819941X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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 unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we end up with it? 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. 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 it 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?
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the judiciary, and related agencies appropriations for 1981
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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