Samuel Arbesman reviews "Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet," by John Bemelmans Marciano.

= John Bemelmans Marciano, author of “Whatever Happened to the Metric System: How America Kept Its Feet,” says he thinks “millimetering along” is at least good as “inching along ...

The most sophisticated and powerful opponents of the metric system were engineers who built the industrial infrastructure of the United States.

Why would anyone hate the metric system? And huh, there was a concerted effort to kill it? I thought it just died of natural causes because, well, people are dumb about stuff sometimes.

It was a move that John Bemelmans Marciano called “the day the metric died” in his book Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

The US tried to adopt the metric system, but pirates made sure it never happened. Image credit: donfiore/Shutterstock.com ...

Thomas Jefferson wanted the US to switch to the more logical metric system of measurement in the 1790s. But because of British pirates, the official kilogram never arrived here.

Entrepreneur, visionary, and thought leader George Contos understands this struggle and shares his advice on operating a business in his newly published book Growing Up Metric: Real-life Business ...

The metric system of measurement was originally established in France in 1790, after which it swiftly swept all of Europe in a multinational effort to standardize measurement across cultures.

The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture ...

Wondering why the United States is one of three countries in the world that doesn't use the metric system? The answer will definitely surprise you.