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The chart (below) shows when various countries adopted the metric system and is based on a survey conducted by USMA many years ago. The chart shows the countries' names at the time; some have since changed names.
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lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm
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Who invented the metric system ? The metric system was invented in France in 1790, a French National congress directed the Academy of Sciences to standardize the units of measurements. A group from the Academy used a decimal system and def...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_created_the_metric_system
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Units of Measure question: Why was the metric system created? The Metric System is a decimal system of measures based on the metre. More broadly, the Metric System is a decimal system of measures and weights ... Whay was the metric system created? Why they created the metric system? Why was the meteric system created?
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wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_was_the_metric_system_created
wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_was_the_metric_system_created
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The metric system replaces all the traditional units, except the units of time and ... (2) Multiples and fractions of these fundamental units are created by adding prefixes to the names of the defined units. These prefixes denote powers of ten, so that metric units are always divided into tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.
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www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/metric.html
www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/metric.html
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Created at the end of the 18th Century to provide a consistent system of units amidst a wide variety of different standards. ... Previously, each area had its own units inherited from earlier times.
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Jefferson assured his colleagues that the new system was certain to become universal, and that even if the United States didn't join forces with the French in spreading to all the world the glories of freedom, equality, and fraternity, it ought at least to adopt the metric system and emancipate the race from arithmetic.
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6mm.com/z/1916metricmag.htm
6mm.com/z/1916metricmag.htm
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The metric system has been around in some form or another since Roman and Greek times. The Romans used to divide armies into tens, hundreds and thousands and the word metre actually derives from the Greek word metron. The earliest recorded ...
http://www.blurtit.com/q373399.html
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Invention Question: Why Was The Metric System Invented? As science began to develop few hundred years ago, scientists had trouble with measurements. Standards vary from nation to nation and even within ... In 1840 the French Government had to insist that the people use the metric system or be punished.
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www.blurtit.com/q143073.html
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Metric system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The metric system is an international decimalised system of measurement, first adopted by France in 1791, that is the common system of measuring units used by most of the world. It exists in several...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
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