All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States.

When the Reagan administration cut funding for the U.S. Metric Board in 1982, the agency closed its doors and the movement ...

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 ...

Certainly we would need to recalibrate scales, gas pumps ... Act of 1975 followed by a 1988 bill making metric the “preferred system of weights and measures” and beginning a voluntary ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) have developed a metric scale to assist tourism providers in tapping the ...

A nanometer (nm) is a unit of length in the metric system ... unit used primarily to measure the atomic and molecular scale of materials and the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation. The SI system ...