Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet

"The system of measurement for most of the world is the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s the United States appeared ready to switch from American standard measurement. The reasons it never happened get to the root of who we think we are, just as ISBN13: 9781608194759 ISBN10: '1608194752 Material Type "hardcover"

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