Whatever Happened to the Metric System? How America Kept Its Feet - John Bemelmans Marciano
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The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold, with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: 12 inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, 16 ounces in a pound, 100 pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we end up with it? Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think.
John Marciano chronicles the origins of measurement systems, the kaleidoscopic array of standards throughout Europe and the 13 American colonies, the combination of intellect and circumstance that resulted in the metric system’s creation in France in the wake of the French Revolution, and America’s stubborn adherence to the hybrid United States Customary System ever since. As much as it is a tale of quarters and tenths, it is a human drama, replete with great inventors, visionary presidents, obsessive activists, and science-loving technocrats. Anyone who listens to this inquisitive, engaging story will never read Robert Frost’s line “miles to go before I sleep” or eat a foot-long sub again without wondering, “Whatever happened to the metric system?”
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 4/5
February 9th, 2024
The American matrix keeping its population disconnected from the outside world as always
February 9th, 2024
The flag on the moon is measured in inches.
February 9th, 2024
As a retired drug dealer I would like to point out we were doing our part every day to try to drag the country into the world of grams & keys.
February 9th, 2024
marquisdesade420 - kudos.
You did your duty to your country.
Thank you for your service.
February 10th, 2024
How America Kept Its Feet, but fell on it’s-ass.
The author is none too bright either. The metric system is a base 10 system, so US pennies, dimes & the dollar are essentially metric.
They also can’t comprehend a ’round about’ & many that were built in the US were torn out and replaced with the primitive 4 way stop.
A people who refuse to change or become incapable of keeping up, get left behind. See the last 800 years of the Muslim world.
February 11th, 2024
Growing up in the US it hit me when I learned the metric system in elementary school kids that our refusal to adobt something so simple is a prime example of American willfull stupidity at its most stupid. Accept for maybe nominating for president a 23 time rapist and 4 time traitor that showed classified documents to the Russian spies in the oval office directly resulting in the disappearing and deaths of American and it’s partner’s intelligence assets throughout syria and the Middle East and Europe.
February 16th, 2024
Come now, American kids are making great strides in moving over to the metric system. I haven’t meant a single one who doesn’t already use 9mm.
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