WHEN all other measures have been converted to the metric system from the earlier haphazard systems, I wonder why the metric measure of time has not yet been introduced in our part of the world. The ...

THROUGHOUT MUCH of human history, man has been the measure of many, if not all, things. Lengths were divided up into feet, palms, spans and smaller units derived from the human hand. Other measures ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We do. I designed and built a digital metric clock in 1987/88. Unfortunately the idea of dividing the day into 10 metric hours didn't ...

We use different metric units, such as centimetres, metres and litres to measures things like how big an area is, how long an object is, or how much a container can hold. Length is measured in ...

IN the article entitled “Scientific and Practical Metric Units” which appeared in NATURE of October 24, 1918, reference is made to the convenient bridge to the metric system which exists in the ton, ...

Metric Units for the Solar System is an exploration of our relationship with the systems of ‘standardized units’ we have created to order society; examining the various tensions implicit in the ...