James Vincent

They thought that it meant that the metric system was inherently foreign. And so that was something that made people reject it. At the time that the metric system was being made, there was a lot of support for the metric system in America. A lot of people from Washington to Jefferson all said, you know, we're pro metric. We think it's a great system. It has all sorts of advantages.

They thought that it meant that the metric system was inherently foreign. And so that was something that made people reject it. At the time that the metric system was being made, there was a lot of support for the metric system in America. A lot of people from Washington to Jefferson all said, you know, we're pro metric. We think it's a great system. It has all sorts of advantages.

They thought that it meant that the metric system was inherently foreign. And so that was something that made people reject it. At the time that the metric system was being made, there was a lot of support for the metric system in America. A lot of people from Washington to Jefferson all said, you know, we're pro metric. We think it's a great system. It has all sorts of advantages.

It's going to unite the world in this frictionless world of trade. We should get onto it. And, you know, quite understandably as well, you guys, you had pretty important things to get on with at that period. You know, you were you were creating a country from scratch. So understandably, measurement was not necessarily the highest thing on the agenda.

It's going to unite the world in this frictionless world of trade. We should get onto it. And, you know, quite understandably as well, you guys, you had pretty important things to get on with at that period. You know, you were you were creating a country from scratch. So understandably, measurement was not necessarily the highest thing on the agenda.

It's going to unite the world in this frictionless world of trade. We should get onto it. And, you know, quite understandably as well, you guys, you had pretty important things to get on with at that period. You know, you were you were creating a country from scratch. So understandably, measurement was not necessarily the highest thing on the agenda.

It becomes a really, really difficult thing to change a country's system of measurements because it is changing people's way of life in a way. There's lots of sort of fantastic discussions from this during the 19th century where it's sort of compared to changing people's language or going into their homes and moving things about in their house without their say so.

It becomes a really, really difficult thing to change a country's system of measurements because it is changing people's way of life in a way. There's lots of sort of fantastic discussions from this during the 19th century where it's sort of compared to changing people's language or going into their homes and moving things about in their house without their say so.

It becomes a really, really difficult thing to change a country's system of measurements because it is changing people's way of life in a way. There's lots of sort of fantastic discussions from this during the 19th century where it's sort of compared to changing people's language or going into their homes and moving things about in their house without their say so.

You know, it's seen as very intrusive and it becomes a cultural issue as well. The real reason, though, if we want to get down to the sort of pragmatist approach to this, the real reason that the US and the UK as well, to a degree, didn't immediately adopt the metric system is that these were two countries that were too powerful that they ever needed to. The US has this huge internal market.

You know, it's seen as very intrusive and it becomes a cultural issue as well. The real reason, though, if we want to get down to the sort of pragmatist approach to this, the real reason that the US and the UK as well, to a degree, didn't immediately adopt the metric system is that these were two countries that were too powerful that they ever needed to. The US has this huge internal market.

You know, it's seen as very intrusive and it becomes a cultural issue as well. The real reason, though, if we want to get down to the sort of pragmatist approach to this, the real reason that the US and the UK as well, to a degree, didn't immediately adopt the metric system is that these were two countries that were too powerful that they ever needed to. The US has this huge internal market.

It had a huge manufacturing base. The UK had the same thing with the British Empire while it had the empire. And that meant that they had these huge markets that they could trade with him. And so they were just too powerful and too rich.

It had a huge manufacturing base. The UK had the same thing with the British Empire while it had the empire. And that meant that they had these huge markets that they could trade with him. And so they were just too powerful and too rich.

It had a huge manufacturing base. The UK had the same thing with the British Empire while it had the empire. And that meant that they had these huge markets that they could trade with him. And so they were just too powerful and too rich.

The really interesting thing with when you look at the history of metric adoption is that it often happens right after a political revolution, which which sounds sort of sounds like a silly comparison. But it happens in Russia, for example, after the communist revolution, they go metric. It happens in China with communist revolution. Again, they go metric.

The really interesting thing with when you look at the history of metric adoption is that it often happens right after a political revolution, which which sounds sort of sounds like a silly comparison. But it happens in Russia, for example, after the communist revolution, they go metric. It happens in China with communist revolution. Again, they go metric.

The really interesting thing with when you look at the history of metric adoption is that it often happens right after a political revolution, which which sounds sort of sounds like a silly comparison. But it happens in Russia, for example, after the communist revolution, they go metric. It happens in China with communist revolution. Again, they go metric.

It happens in India when they free themselves from British imperial rule, they go metric. And it happens in South America a lot too, where you have new republics being created. One of the things they do is they adopt the metric system.

It happens in India when they free themselves from British imperial rule, they go metric. And it happens in South America a lot too, where you have new republics being created. One of the things they do is they adopt the metric system.