The US lives in a metric gray area. It has a few laws requiring that consumer goods list both metric and US customary measures, but it still remains isolated in its US customary measures bubble.

The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public remains mostly on the side of US customary units. Polling from 2016 found that only 32% of ...

Hillger says that even countries that have fully adopted the metric system also measure certain things in U.S. customary units or their own local system of measurement.

Why we still deal with metric conversion in the U.S. August 17, 2016 Infrequently Asked Questions: Why do we still use the U.S. Customary System?

Editor’s Note: John Bemelmans Marciano is the author of ‘Whatever happened to the metric system?’. The views expressed are his own. There is much to be admired about presidential candidate ...

In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended for then-U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson played a role in America's decision to not adopt the metric system. Rating: False ...

The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public remains mostly on the side of US customary units. Polling from 2016 found that only 32% of ...

Although the United States hasn’t adopted the metric system as the sole system of measurement, in reality, we use the metric system every day. “This is particularly the case in medicine ...

The measurement debate actually goes back to our nation’s very beginning. The original metric system was developed in France during its revolution, and was so radically decimal that it divided ...

The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public remains mostly on the side of US customary units. Polling from 2016 found that only 32% of ...