Posted: 11/10/2014
In 1975, then U.S. President Gerald Ford signed such an Act of the U.S. Congress into law. Perhaps, this was one of this president’s greatest contributions to fame.
However, the people of the world are still waiting for the U.S. to really adopt the metric system. Will I witness this to happen in my lifetime?
It has always boggled my mind that the U.S. has clung for over 200 years to a system of measurement so akin the the British Imperial (measurement) System. What an irony of history. Supposedly, Thomas Jefferson liked the foot as a unit of length (source).
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