Why is the US not metric? The Legal Argument. US Metric Timeline 1790 Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimal-based measurement system for the United States.

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Why is the US not metric? The Legal Argument

US Metric Timeline 1790 Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimal-based measurement system for the United States and advocates the metric system 1792 The U.S. Mint produced the world's first decimal currency (dollar is 100 cents) 1866 Use of the metric system made legal in the United States by the Metric Act of 1866 (Public Law which made it unlawful to refuse to trade or deal in metric quantities 1889 As a result of the Metre Convention, the U.S. received a prototype meter and kilogram to be used as measurement standards 1893 These metric prototypes were declared "fundamental standards of length and mass" in the Mendenhall Order Since 1893, the yard, pound, etc. have been officially defined in terms of the metric system 1983 NAD27, based on English units for mapping was replaced by NAD83 and metric units adopted for the State Plane Coordinate System within states

Increasing use 1971 Report to the Congress: A Metric America, A Decision Whose Time Has Come. The 13-volume report concluded that the U.S. should "go metric" deliberately and carefully through a coordinated national program, and establish a target date 10 years ahead, by which time the U.S. would be predominately metric The Education Amendments encouraged schools and colleges to prepare students for the metric system 1975 The Metric Conversion Act established the U.S. Metric Board to coordinate the voluntary conversion to the metric system 1988 The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 strengthened the Metric Conversion Act, making the metric system the preferred measurement system, and requiring each federal agency to be metric by the end of President George H. W. Bush signed Executive Order 12770, Metric Usage in Federal Government Programs directing executive departments and federal agencies to implement use of the metric system The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) was amended to add a requirement for metric units on most consumer products.

However… The United States Metrification Board no longer exists, dissolved in 1982 Regardless, metric system has permeated mapping especially military and navigation International trade, most science, standard commerce mostly uses the metric system Only the US, Liberia and Myanmar still do not use the metric system

NGAC recommends (draft) That FGDC recommend to the Secretary of the Interior that it is clearly in the best interests of the nation that the United States Metrification Board be reinstituted. This is in the interests of: STEM education, mapping, charting and geodesy, GIS and geospatial industry, NATO, and the general public.