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The Metric System
Kunz, George Frederick | March 28, 1918 issue

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This article highlights the importance of the use of universal metric system. When the same signs and symbols express to all the same weights and measurements, this will mean a distinct advance along the road leading to international peace and good feeling. The adhesion to the metric standard should be encouraged when it is considered that as early as May 20, 1790, Thomas Jefferson, as Secretary of State, formulated a decimal system of weights and measures, and embodied the scheme in a report. Therefore, in adopting the metric system, the world would be realizing one of the brilliant ideas of the most original thinker among the founders of the republic.

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METRIC system; JEFFERSON, Thomas, 1743-1826; WEIGHTS & measures; DECIMAL system; MATHEMATICS; ARITHMETIC
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