John Bemelmans Marciano

author, 'Whatever Happened to the Metric System?'

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Author of Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet

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Back in the 1970s, there was a huge national campaign to convert the U.S. to the metric system.

Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

Back in the 1970s, there was a huge national campaign to convert the U.S. to the metric system.

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