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Metric Failure: Why the US resists adopting the metre
Science historian Robert Crease chronicles the 200-year effort to make the metric system widely accepted in the United States and explains why it never quite succeeded.
Photo: President Thomas Jefferson on the obverse (heads side) of the US nickel (Credit: US Mint via Getty Images)
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