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Metric System
Alder, Ken.
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World.
Free Press, 2002. Account of the invention of the metric system, the first standard measurement, during the French Revolution and its subsequent history.
Ganeri, Anita.
The Story of Weights and Measures.
Oxford University Press, 1997. For younger readers.
Shoemaker, Robert W.
Metric for Me!: A Layperson's Guide to the Metric System for Everyday Use with Exercises, Problems, and Estimations.
2nd ed. Blackhawk, 1998. Exercises for learning the metric system and an accompanying wall chart with conversions.
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