09-14-2010, 10:43 AM
(09-14-2010, 09:47 AM)Jester Wrote: So? The system the US would have committed itself to using in 1875 has long since been supplanted by SI. It would also have used the centimeter and the gram as base units, not the meter and kilogram.The Metric Convention did use the meter and kilogram. The Centimeter-Gram-Second system was never widely used.
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws...ntion.html