The U.S. government may have backed off of plans to change highway signs to metric distances, but businesses are moving ahead to adopt the world-standard measuring system. In the United States – the ...

Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was ...

THE readers of the article by Mrs. Anderton and P. H. Bigg on ‘The Yard Unit of Length’ 1 may be interested in the results of an investigation following a discussion on metric to inch conversion. The ...

When you’re a machinist, your stock in trade is precision, with measurements in the thousandths of your preferred unit being common. But when you’re a diemaker, your precision game needs to be even ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- If someone built a monument to U.S. metric conversion, it could take the shape of a 2-liter bottle of pop. Funny, huh? Thirty years after the country went metric, and this is all ...