Alder Measure of All Things 2024 vers

  • Proposal to GB Parliament to coordinate metric system

  • French General Assembly adopts meter (based on old lignes)

  • Fauchet supports Whiskey Rebellion, cements US opposition to metric system

    Alder ch 9, American Yawp ch 6
  • French Directory expands instructions on using metric system

  • Delambre shares data with delegates at Paris metric conference

  • Mechain shares data with delegates at Paris metric conference

  • Metric system adopted -- mandatory by 1801

    Alder