Quest for an International Standard Measure: The History of Metrication

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The History Guy looks at weights, measures and the history of metrication. The two-hundred-year quest for an international standard measure is history that deserves to be remembered.
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24 июл 2018

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@ThatBrunetteYouTube 5 лет назад

According to my first grade teacher, the United States will be on the metric system by 1980.

@joelmacdonald6994 2 года назад

Funny thing. I’m Canadian, so we have a really strange hybrid of the two. We weigh ourselves in pounds, we measure put hight in feet/inches. We drive in metric, and we buy our groceries in metric(and yet I still buy coffee as a 454g bag, which equals a pound). The metric system is truly superior, but I’m also a machinist. As such, I love and hate metric. Metric is so much more simple, and yet all my measurement tools are in imperial. I hate working in metric units because I have to make the conversion every time. All the machines I run and all the tools I use are imperial. As much as I do acknowledge that metric is better, but I couldn’t tell you my height or weight in metric without using a calculator. It’s rather comical when you thing about it.

@jeffreynunya4716 5 лет назад

From now on whenever someone asks me why Americans haven't adopted the metric system yet, I'm going to say "because pirates"

@bobrees4363 6 лет назад

Actually there is a very good reason a bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds while a bushel of oats weighs 38: the bushel is a volume measurement.

@warrenwilson7836 3 года назад

Somehow you missed what for me is the greatest benefit of the metric system - just as clarifying as using base-10 math for all calculations: the mathematical unification of measures of mass, volume and length.

@numberpirate 4 года назад

So basically the US isn't metric because of FreeDumb!!

@astrodiver1 6 лет назад

Thanks for this. As a kid in the 70's we were taught the metric system and I specifically remember the math teacher who was a nun, telling us that we needed to learn this because by the time we were adults, all of the U.S. would be using the metric system!

@jamesslick4790 3 года назад

Fun Fact: The Brits use Miles per Hour.

@bea9077w 4 года назад

I still remember bumper stickers during the proposed metrication of the US auto industry: "We're going metric - every inch of the way!"

@Hollows1997 5 лет назад

Biggest problem of Beer being sold by the pint in Britain is that when you go to Europe you get 68 millilitres less beer than in a pint (568 millilitres) also on that note a single measure of spirit, for example vodka, is 25ml in Britain and is usually 40ml in Europe. Inevitably when the average Briton asks for a double measure they think they’re asking for 50ml but receive 80ml... it’s why we’re always hammered when we go abroad.

@berryearth951 4 года назад

Love your show. Here is an interesting fact: in 1996 I was a draftsman for the county engineering office in Mississippi. That year the state mandated that we would build all of our roads using the metric system. So for 12 months we redesigned all of our blueprints into metric. At the end, we sent the plans out to be bid on by contractors but they all refused. So for the next 12 months we put both us customary and metric. At the end of that year we gave up and returned to us customary alone.

@Tadesan 6 лет назад

"My car gets fifty rods to the hog's head and that's the way I like it!"

@RealLuckless 6 лет назад

There is also the chicken and egg issue on whether or not people are using Metric or the US Standard - In Canada, where we've "been metric" for decades we still build our houses using feet and inches. Why? Because all of our materials are cut to Customary units, in part because that is what the builders here use and because the mills that supply our building supply stores also typically export to the US.

@mos233389 4 года назад

Forget the content, I love the tone, style and passion of your delivery. Don’t stop History Guy.

@kramsc1 2 года назад

I was taught imperial measures when I first went to school but then our country (Australia) introduced the metric system and I learnt metric. It made learning so much easier not having to remember how many feet to the mile etc.

@DoomerONE 6 лет назад

Truth be told I will admit the idea of an episode on the system of measurement initially didn't sound exciting. But as is always the case you sir have taken something forgotten and made it interesting. I could not stop watching. Thank you again for a fascinating video.

@martin_mue 4 года назад

The silliness boggles my mind.

@leemaxwell1912 6 лет назад

I admire your pronunciations: Consistently precise. I have yet to view a video I haven't enjoyed and appreciated. Keep up your good work.

@rcrxjlb 6 лет назад

In Texas, everything is either a handfull or a shitload...

@SurfBigg 2 года назад

I know this is an old video but I wanted to comment. This video was insightful. I've never thought about it from the perspective that the citizens abroad were forced to switch to Metric by their governments.