This was such a major problem that in 1790, President George Washington said in his first State of the Union address that ...

The debate between metric and imperial measurement systems has gone on for decades, but is one truly superior? This analysis ...

In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

Most countries use the metric system for everything they do. They measure distance in kilometers, speed in kilometers per hour, volume in liters and so on. Everything happens to be a multiple of ...

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

ON December 1 of last year, the Chinese Government issued a notice to the effect that the metric system of weights and measures would be introduced into the Customs service on February 1.

As it stands now, Android defaults to the measurement system associated with your device's system language. This could change ...

The metric system is used by almost every country in the world, making it a universal language of measurement. The United States officially endorsed the metric system in 1975, but implementation has ...

And weather-watching expert David Phillips remembers well the confusion that came when Canada switched over from the imperial to the metric system. “I couldn't believe it was that long ago,” said ...

In the meantime, a new system of weights and measures, developed by French scientists following the Revolution of 1789, gained increasing international use. This metric system had as its fundamental ...