Today in 1790, the metric system was born. The French National Assembly passed two decrees: One asked the French Academy of Sciences to determine “the scale of division most suitable for weights and measures and for coins;” the other instructed the French Academy to work with the Royal Society in London to “deduce an invariable standard for all the meas…
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