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Series
NBS special publication volume 345
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
xvii, 170 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. Marciano chronicles the origins of measurement systems, the kaleidoscopic array of standards throughout Europe and the thirteen American colonies, the combination of intellect and...
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