Why doesn’t the U.S. use the Metric System? Pirates. In the late 1700s, the U.S. had no standardized system—each state used different measures, causing chaos in commerce. George Washington called for ...

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When the Reagan administration cut funding for the U.S. Metric Board in 1982, the agency closed its doors and the movement ...

In 1971, the idea was implemented into federal policies, and thus began Canada’s use of the metric system. The conversion from imperial to metric was a slow one, lasting into the 1980s, ...

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The metric system vs. imperial system debate has raged on for years, but is one truly better? From NASA losing a $328 million spacecraft due to a conversion error to ...

And Canadians do this all the time. Most of the world uses the metric system. The Americans use imperial. And then Canada uses an unholy amalgam of both. It’s one of our weirdest national traits ...

Van racking supplier System Edström has appointed James Cosgrove to the newly created role of UK sales manager for conversions. Cosgrove has been with the company for almost seven years, during which ...

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