In 1866, President Andrew Johnson signed into law an act of Congress that made it “lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system in all contracts, dealings or court proceedings.”
In 1975, 40 years ago, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Metric Conversion Act, which declared the metric system “the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce”, but it didn’t take. Why not? Cory Zapatka explains. A Verge Science video.
More:
“The real reasons why the US refuses to go metric,” Cory Zapatka, The Verge
“Why the US hasn’t fully adopted the metric system,” Zack Guzman, CNBC
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