An American Decimal System of Weights and Measures (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from An American Decimal System of Weights and Measures It would be a great deal more sensible to forbid the use of the metric system in the United' States than to propose to abolish our common measures by arbitrary law. There is no room in the country for two systems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.