Advocates of the metric system are accustomed to such scorn. Back in 1972, Rhode Island senator Claiborne Pell was attacked by his Republican opponent for wasting time on low-priority items like ...

Metric is the system of internationalism, and those who wish to fight it are against the country going metric. But Mihm told me that “most Americans just don’t really care that much.

Some have argued that reverting to the metric system would help to facilitate trade with our US cousins. But the US system of measurement is not the same as the UK’s imperial system. An imperial ...

In one episode of The Simpsons, so often a window into contemporary American life, Grandpa Simpson rants that: “The metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead ...

Ensso has designed an all-in-one fountain pen with scale ruler for architects and engineers, graded with imperial and metric ... 1:200, 1:400, and 1:500) and six following the imperial system ...

Metric System Ruler wikicommons America’s reluctance to convert to the metric system was once famously lampooned by television’s longest-running animated sitcom, "The Simpsons," in an episode ...

One reason this country never adopted the metric system might be pirates. Here's what happened: In 1793, the brand new United States of America needed a standard measuring system because the ...

A SHORT time ago (March 29) Dr. C. E. Guillaume contributed to the Paris Academy of Sciences a paper on the obligatory adoption of the metric system in Japan. The Decent Japanese law making- the ...

America Has Been Struggling With the Metric System For More Than 200 Years The United States is the one of the world’s only holdouts at this point, but it could have been the first country ...

The US uses metric to “define all basic units used in commerce and trade” and says using the metric system with the imperial system actually makes the United States “a truly bilingual nation”.

While these three countries continue to use the imperial system, both Liberia and Myanmar are gradually introducing metric units, which are already widely used in some contexts. In the United ...