Metrication
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Metrication or metrification is the act or process of converting to the metric system of measurement. All over the world, countries have transitioned from local and traditional units of measurement to
National Convention decree of April 1795 establishing the metric system
Conversion table in an 1848 German schoolbook showing the metric equivalent of the foot in use in over two dozen countries, including several German states
Johann Jacob Baeyer, founder of the Europäische Gradmessung
Stone marking the Austro-Hungarian/Italian border at Pontebba displaying myriametres (10 km), a unit used in Central Europe in the 19th century
Metrication is the act or process of converting to the metric system of measurement. The United Kingdom, through voluntary and mandated laws, has metricated most of government, industry, commerce, and
Loose tomatoes for sale at a UK greengrocer in 2013, dual-priced in imperial (£0.99/lb) and metric (£2.18/kg) units.
Gunter's chain – one of Britain's earliest decimal‑based measuring devices (each link being 1⁄1000 furlong or 201 mm) greatly simplified the measurement of land area.
Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851. Judges in the exhibition were hampered by the variety of units of measure in use.
Joule's heat apparatus, 1845