Whatever happened to the metric system? : how America kept its feet /
Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. Marciano chronicles the ori...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Marciano, John Bemelmans
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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