Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet

by John Bemelmans Marciano

Book Overview

The system of measurement for most of the world is the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s the United States appeared ready to switch from American standard measurement. The reasons it never happened get to the root of who we think we are, just as American 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 thirteen American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608194752
• ISBN13: 9781608194759
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"