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- bearing on the question whether or not it would be wise to introduce the metric system into the United States was brought forward. This evidence is given in...715 bytes (6,322 words) - 07:22, 2 October 2018
- Volume 49 June 1896 (1896) The Metric System by Herbert Spencer 1232729Popular Science Monthly Volume 49 June 1896 — The Metric System1896Herbert Spencer Layout...651 bytes (8,794 words) - 14:30, 30 September 2018
- Volume 18 Metric System 14747231911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18 — Metric System METRIC SYSTEM (adapted from Gr. μέτρον, measure), that system of weights...567 bytes (613 words) - 01:41, 18 February 2022
- Reference Work Metric System, The 83836The New Student's Reference Work — Metric System, The Met′ric System, The, is an international system of measurement...270 bytes (450 words) - 00:25, 17 January 2022
- 1905 (1905) The Metric System of Weights and Measures by Arthur Edwin Kennelly 1422759Popular Science Monthly Volume 66 February 1905 — The Metric System of Weights...714 bytes (4,817 words) - 11:30, 28 September 2018
- 1918, 11, 11 Turns to Metric System 4439090The New York Times, 1918, 11, 11 — Turns to Metric System Layout 2 TURNS TO METRIC SYSTEM United States Prepares...370 bytes (264 words) - 09:50, 3 March 2024
- 1904 (1904) The Metric System: Shall it Be Compulsory? by Walter Le Conte Stevens 1417423Popular Science Monthly Volume 64 March 1904 — The Metric System: Shall...714 bytes (5,756 words) - 09:48, 28 September 2018
- October 1896 (1896) The Metric System by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall 1234644Popular Science Monthly Volume 49 October 1896 — The Metric System1896Thomas Corwin...637 bytes (6,191 words) - 14:35, 30 September 2018
- triumph of the metric system may be regarded as safe, beyond peradventure; no event still in the future is more certain. A universal system of weights, measures...669 bytes (5,066 words) - 07:40, 2 October 2018
- Metric or French System 1231545Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1908 — The Metric or French SystemThomas Davidson THE METRIC or FRENCH SYSTEM....11 KB (29 words) - 15:18, 28 January 2012
- to implement the congressional designation of the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and...8 KB (1,250 words) - 07:21, 21 October 2022
- PRACTICAL STANDPOINT. A PLEA FOR THEIR RETENTION IN PREFERENCE TO THE METRIC SYSTEM. “Be Just, and Fear Not.” By JAMES W. EVANS, Metropolitan Inspector...955 bytes (13,700 words) - 05:17, 24 August 2019
- 8—Legal Weights, Measures and Period Sec. 29. Official Use of Metric System.—The metric system of weights and measures shall be used in the Philippines for...2 KB (281 words) - 05:51, 29 July 2024
- WilkinsEnglish clergyman, natural philosopher and author; founder of the metric system and first secretary of the Royal Society in 1660; Bishop of Chester...2 KB (271 words) - 11:05, 7 February 2023
- The New Student's Reference Work Meter 83829The New Student's Reference Work — Meter Me′ter. See Metric System....222 bytes (17 words) - 15:09, 16 January 2022
- rules and divisions of the various metrical systems, see Verse. For the restricted use of “metre” as a unit of measurement, see Metric System below....361 bytes (131 words) - 09:52, 2 February 2021
- Code. (B) METRIC SYSTEM — the term ‘metric system’ has the meaning the term ‘metric system of measurement’ has under section 4 of the Metric Conversion...752 bytes (1,314 words) - 07:03, 29 December 2023
- Measures1914Carl Albert Thimm WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Weight. Length Surface. Capacity. N.B.—The metric system is commonly used for weight and length....380 bytes (38 words) - 09:09, 1 July 2015
- expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system; and the metric weights and measures received from the United States, and now...505 bytes (4,332 words) - 08:00, 2 October 2018
- Reference Work — Dyne Dyne (dīn), the unit of force employed in the metric system. It is defined as that force which, acting upon a mass of one gram...842 bytes (143 words) - 20:23, 4 February 2022