Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "Почему в США не используется метрическая система? Его украли пираты. Да пираты." video.

  1. The pirate story is greatly exaggerated. If the United States had wanted to adopt Metric units at that time, we would have just obtained another set of prototypes. Jefferson (as Secretary of State) just wanted to have them for reference, because he was interested in measurement reform. (He was interested in everything.) Instead, he moved on, became President, and did nothing to further the cause of measurement reform again. It was several decades before the United States adopted Metric units (1866), and then not for general conversion.
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