The 20 recognized metric prefixes have been specified by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) for the International ... These prefixes all derive from either Latin or Greek terms.

to urge upon the Government the desirability of adopting the metric system,of weights and measures, as recommended by the late Select Committee on the subject. It will be gratifying to men of ...

1790 Thomas Jefferson proposes a decimal-based measurement system for the United States. 1792 The U.S. Mint is established and produces the world's first decimal currency (100 cents to the dollar).

In 1875, the United States signed the Convention du Mètre, establishing an international body to maintain metric standards. In 1893, all weights and measures used in this country were defined ...

A color poster produced in 1850, explains metric weights and measures, including meters, kilos, and liters for French schoolchildren. In 1837, eager to co-opt the legacy of the revolution for his ...

It was in 1866 that the use of metric weights and measures became legal though not standard in the U.S. and, as TIME pointed out during a later debate over the metric system, some non-metric ...

The law, which was intended "to authorize the use of the metric system of weights and measures," was signed by then-President Andrew Johnson the next day. It provided a table of standardized ...

which believes the outcome could decide the future of the nation's weights and measures system. Mr Thoburn and his fellow trader Neil Herron, a fishmonger who has also been ordered to change his ...

Shops in the UK could soon be allowed to ditch the metric system of measurements ... The rules were created to standardise weights and measures across the continent, although the UK still retained ...

Based on: The Adoption of the Metric System of Weights and Measures by the United States Marine Hospital Service. Washington. 1878.

THE question of the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures into the United Kingdom has been before the public for more than forty years. An important step in this direction was ...