Weights and Measures Standards
of the United States A brief history Louis E. Barbrow and Lewis V. Judson 1976 This publication provides a brief history of U.S. weights and measures from the founding of the country to about 1975. It includes copies of the notices published in the Federal Register of the United States that give the relationships between various customary units of weights and measures and SI units. It is out of print, but available online as a complete PDF document (67 MB), or by selecting specific sections (also PDF files) listed below in the Table of Contents.
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