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On the Metric System of Weights and Measures, and its proposed Adoption in this Country

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Samuel Brown
Samuel Brown*
Affiliation:
Institute of Actuaries
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Extract

The great advantages, social, commercial, and political, which would attend the use of one system of weights, measures, and coins throughout the world, have generally been admitted, but as generally considered impossible. Such a result is frequently deemed to be merely the dream of a visionary, or the speculation of a philosopher, who has no practical knowledge of the world, and is incapable of appreciating the difficulties which stand in the way of accomplishing so desirable an object.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 11 , Issue 5 , April 1864 , pp. 263 - 279
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1864

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