SINCE the publication of the article on the Metric System, in NATURE, vol. viii. p. 386, my attention has been drawn to some recent information showing the important part taken by the celebrated ...

U.S., Arab and Israeli officials all tell CBS News that Israel and Hamas have agreed in principle to a ceasefire and ...

No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and measure among units of length (inches, feet, yards, miles) or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French ...

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

Weather-watching expert David Phillips remembers the confusion that came when Canada switched over from the imperial to the metric system 50 years ago.

A nanometer (nm) is a unit of length in the metric system, defined as one billionth (10-9) of a meter (m). The meter is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), making the ...

Gossage died in January 2001. Jonathan Gossage said his father felt the transition to metric was important for Canada, as the Imperial system an “unnecessary bottleneck” in international trade.

It was the first in a series of events designed to promote understanding and acceptance of the metric system. "We were the guinea pig," said David Phillips with Environment and Climate Change Canada.