All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States.

It caught my eye because the units of measurement for the same product weren’t the same. The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units.

In 1975, the United States passed the Metric Conversion Act. The legislation was meant to slowly transition its units of measurement from feet and pounds to meters and kilograms, bringing the US ...

Why we still deal with metric conversion in the U.S.

Are Pirates Who Hijacked Measuring Tools Intended for Thomas Jefferson the Reason US Isn't Metric? "This country could have gone metric right from the beginning," the claim goes, "instead of being ...

America Has Been Struggling With the Metric System For More Than 200 Years The United States is the one of the world’s only holdouts at this point, but it could have been the first country ...

The popular narrative holds that this 1970s conversion movement failed, and that Americans have never gone metric because we are too obstinate or patriotic or just plain stupid to do so.

It caught my eye because the units of measurement for the same product weren’t the same. The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public ...