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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.
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.