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Measurements
Patented: History of Inventions
What Measurements Do?
Measurements were high on the list of priorities for French revolutionaries. They wanted to create a consistent system of units that was the same throughout france, because they thought it would really help the economy. It had been something that had sort of been on the cards before this. Scientists had been talking about it a for a whilet it would really benefit humanity if we had this. So there was some natural favorability towards it.
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