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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

A nanometer (nm) is a unit of length in the metric system, defined as one billionth (10-9) of a meter (m). The meter is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), making the ...

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