The Metric System and the Imperial System and Us Customary Measures

The metric system was created during the french revolution and then spread essentially through europe by napoleonic conquest. The other is the imperial system, slash the us. Customary measure system. One of the reasons the u k stayed outside the metric system for so long was because it had this huge imperial base within which it could trade. Yes, increasingly metric has been associated with the european union. But again, your fer to your book demonstrates the fact that the debate around whether we should swap imperial for metric has been there for decades,. well before the europeans were ever thought of.