The following year saw another attempt at promoting the metric system in the United States. But the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 was voluntary, ...

The US is one of the few holdouts not on the metric system Islands in a Metric World, 1971. Since this map was made, the US hasn't gotten any allies on its lonely island.

Ever wonder why America sticks to inches and pounds? Turns out, pirates played a surprising role in keeping the metric system ...

At press time, only three of the world's countries don't use the metric system: the United States, Myanmar and Liberia. But it didn't have to be this way. On this day in 1866, the Metric Act was ...

The United States could be using the metric system — the universal system of measurement that every industrialized nation uses except the U.S. — if it wasn’t for a bunch of pirates 224 years ...

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

In the latest Verge Science video, we take a look at three lesser-known reasons behind the US’s reluctance to adopt the metric system. We’re lazy, but that isn’t the only problem.

According to A History of the Metric System Controversy in the United States by Charles F. Treat, the bill died in the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures; though advocates tried to find ...

The United States, Liberia and Myanmar are the only countries in the world that do not officially use the metric system for weights and measurements. On the brink of Thursday’s Brexit vote ...

Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between “traditional” and “progressive” values. This is an extract from ...

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 ...