A Metric America
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title:
A Metric America
text:
A Metric America: A Decision Whose Time Has Come was a 1971 book by the United States National Bureau of Standards printed by the Government Printing Office. In 1968, in the Metric Study Act, Congress authorized a three-year study of systems of measurement in the U.S., with particular emphasis on the feasibility of adopting the SI. This detailed U.S. Metric Study was conducted by the Department of Commerce. A 45-member advisory panel consulted with and took testimony from hundreds of consumers,
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1971 book by the United States National Bureau of Standards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Metric_America
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2006-10-13T17:44:25Z
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2024-09-13T11:13:53Z
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