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

Hiding in plain sight. First, the facts: “It’s been legal to use the metric system in the United States since 1866,” says Elizabeth Benham, program leader of the federal metric program at ...

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

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.

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.

How Pirates Blocked the US from Adopting the Metric System — and Other Weird Facts. 7 Dec. 2019, https: ...

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 ...