Visual Intelligence unveiled its new geoimaging solution, iOne Infrastructure Metric Mapping System (iOne IMS), which it calls a major technological milestone for infrastructure metric mapping and ...

The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...

Slowly, the metric system spread throughout the nation, first thanks to brass standards issued to the states to help them standardize their weights and measurements, then thanks to the Treaty of ...

The metric system was born out of the French Revolution in 1799, designed to bring uniformity and simplicity to measurements. ... Visual Stories. Previous. 9 Ways to Manage Stress Before Exams.

The pre-metric system in France was particularly complicated and by 1789 there were at least 800 different units of measurement, many of which varied according to which town you were in or the ...

The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system. Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture ...