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Why doesn’t the U.S. use the Metric System? Pirates. In the late 1700s, the U.S. had no standardized system—each state used ...

In the meantime, a new system of weights and measures, developed by French scientists following the Revolution of 1789, gained increasing international use. This metric system had as its fundamental ...

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

There had been months of run-up to April 1, 1975, the day Canada would officially join much of the rest of the world in using the metric system. Environment Canada had printed flyers declaring the ...

In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.