Measurements
Patented: History of Inventions
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Why the Metric System Isn't a Big Deal in the u.s.
There is a lot of straightforward xenophobia in dislike of the metric system because it's associated with the excesses of the revolution. The big thing for america is that their economy is so large a that they don't really need to change to a new system. A little bit of harmonized trade with the rest of the world would go down nicely. It's interesting, thoughow how these ncultural things still play ond. I think that wasn't yever a famous case where they sent a probe to mars, and some of thes are doing it in millimeters,. And the oll thing any blueeras thatte e ad an apocryphal story? I don't
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