Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Technology
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1780

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Author: National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2288

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Includes history of bills and resolutions.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science
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Category : Science and state
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2282

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Author: John Bemelmans Marciano
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 160819941X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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The intriguing tale of why the United States has never adopted the metric system, and what that says about us. The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we end up with it? Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. John Marciano chronicles the origins of measurement systems, the kaleidoscopic array of standards throughout Europe and the thirteen American colonies, the combination of intellect and circumstance that resulted in the metric system's creation in France in the wake of the French Revolution, and America's stubborn adherence to the hybrid United States Customary System ever since. As much as it is a tale of quarters and tenths, it is a human drama, replete with great inventors, visionary presidents, obsessive activists, and science-loving technocrats. Anyone who reads this inquisitive, engaging story will never read Robert Frost's line “miles to go before I sleep” or eat a foot-long sub again without wondering, Whatever happened to the metric system?

Author: Leonard J. Hopper
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471477559
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards is an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with landscape architecture, design, and construction. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the "bible" for the landscape field. Edited by an educator and former president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, it provides immediate access to rules-of-thumb and standards used throughout the planning, design, construction and management of landscapes. View sample pages from Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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