The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of Sciences and its successor, the Institute of France, to develop entirely new units to measure ... but a ...

Though the English eventually adopted and ... pratique" to find scientific grounding for a given measurement. Unsurprisingly, the Metric System quickly found favor among various cultures.

While these three countries continue to use the imperial system, both Liberia and Myanmar are gradually introducing metric ...

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.