In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...

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Potatoes are displayed for sale in imperial measurements in Darlington England on September 6, 2018. Photo: Oli Scarff/AFP (Getty Images) The UK government has released a 23-item list of things it ...

Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...

Britain is planning a future that relies on greater usage of its imperial system of weights and measurements. Here’s why it’s happening now → Britain formally adopted imperial units — think inches, ...

Recently I heard a news item on TV that the European Union has agreed to allow the United Kingdom to keep the imperial system of measurement (foot, pound) in parallel with the metric system (meter, ...

The good news is that Imperial forces are losing the battle for planetary dominance. The bad news is that we’re on their team. The British Imperial System of measurement, born in 1824, was an ...