NOTWITHSTANDING the growing demand in this country for our adoption of the metric system of weights and measures and a decimal system of coinage, the Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Few Colorado residents have ever heard of John F. Shafroth (1854-1922). He was governor of Colorado, a U.S. senator and representative, Denver resident, and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The inch, based on the length of a thumb, and the foot based on, well, the length of a foot, are inherently associated with human ...
On April 19, 1973, Wilson Riles, superintendent of public instruction for California. called to announce that beginning in 1976 the metric system would be taught in California. The reaction from the ...
Americans have long used diverse weights and measures, reflecting their diverse origins. From colonial times, converting from one unit to another was part of courses in commercial arithmetic. The ...
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 Lincoln ...
THERE are probably few readers of NATURE who do not realise that what is being referred to in the Press as “The War after the War” is nothing more than a tardy appreciation of the “war before the war” ...
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