While these three countries continue to use the imperial system, both Liberia and Myanmar are gradually introducing metric ...

The metric system revolutionized the world and simplified how we measure things. But one part of our lives never quite got ...

No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and measure among units of length (inches, feet, yards, miles) or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French ...

ON December 1 of last year, the Chinese Government issued a notice to the effect that the metric system of weights and measures would be introduced into the Customs service on February 1.

In the meantime, a new system of weights and measures, developed by French scientists following the Revolution of 1789, gained increasing international use. This metric system had as its fundamental ...

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

It’s almost been a half-century of temperatures reaching well below-zero throughout the winter months in Canada. That’s because the Celsius measurement was introduced in Canada on April 1, 1975.