Whatever happened to the metric system?
how America kept its feet
Book - 2014
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2014.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Whatever happened to the metric system? : |b how America kept its feet / |c John Bemelmans Marciano. |
| 250 | |a First U.S. edition | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Bloomsbury, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-300) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The day the metric died -- Thomas Jefferson plans -- American Paris -- Metric systems -- The decimation of everything -- Napoleonic measures -- Lighthouses of the sky -- The internationalists -- A universal coin -- The battle of the standards -- Standard time -- A toolkit for the world -- The Great Calendar Debate -- Shocks to the system -- A metric America -- Isolated -- Appendix A. U.S. customary and metric measures -- Appendix B. Customary metric measures. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Metric system. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Weights and measures. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Metric system |x History. | |
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