Feet, inches and gallons were a relic of a backwards ... And if you didn’t comply with the new metric zeitgeist, you could face severe consequences. For example, if you were a gas station ...

Male, brown hair, blue and white striped top: Feet and inches. Male, black hair and goatee ... ounces and miles are used alongside metric units like metres, millilitres and kilometres.

And when you buy beef by the pound or do your carpentry with inches and feet, you are the unwitting legacy of a populist, ...

No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and measure among units of length (inches, feet, yards, miles) or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French ...

All the NASA contractors were tooled to build parts in inches and pounds; converting to metric would have required revised designs and new machines. So instead they developed an elaborate and ...