The speed limit is going up to 88. But look carefully at those speed signs – it’s 88 of those metric things. Ten years after America’s last metric experiment petered out, the fede… ...

By 1960, the metric system had been expanded and modernized to cover aspects of all of Earth, from voltage to speed, heat capacity to radiance. That year, the International System of Units, or SI ...

The Carter Administration did get one interstate highway to adopt the metric system. The 63-mile long I-19 in Southern Arizona became a 102-kilometer long interstate. ADOT ...

America has had a funny relationship with the metric system; we’ve gone about halfway. We buy Coke in 12-ounce cans, but in 2-liter bottles.

It’s marked by numerous starts and stops for embracing the metric system, and even includes a tale of a tragic hijacking by pirates in the Caribbean. Advertisement.

The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

Some strongly opposed metric units, and many were content to use familiar measures. Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world went metric. After Great Britain voted to adopt the metric system in 1965, ...

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 next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

As an engineer and science educator, I found reading your coverage of the movement to abandon the metric system in the U.K. disheartening (“U.K. Weighs Saying Cheerio to Metric System,” Page ...