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.

MATTOON — Police have arrested a former Charleston man in connection with the Friday night shotgun holdup of Taylor's IGA on ...

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.

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 ...

It’s almost been a half-century of temperatures reaching well below-zero throughout the winter months in Canada. That’s because the Celsius measurement was introduced in Canada on April 1, 1975.

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 ...