In the late eighteenth century, there waswidespread corruption in all aspects of French life. The supreme was ruled bythe king and the chief concern of the kings and the other nobles of the courtwas to keep their positions. Eventually, the system exploded with the outbreakof the French Revolution. Check out the most amazing Metric Adapters.
One of the many areas of corruption was that ofunits of measure. The King’s units of measure only applied to transactions inwhich the state was involved. Each layer of society was entitled to redefineunits of measure as they saw fit and not to necessarily use the same units ofmeasure for buying as they used for selling products.
The modern National Assembly establishedcommittees of inquiry to examine several problems during the break out of the FrenchRevolution. One of these being a committee to examine units ofmeasure. This commission looked at various suggestions that had been proposedover the last century.
Among these were proposals by Thomas Jeffersonand by John Wilkins to totally overhaul the system of units of measure and touse a decimal-based system. Both men proposed using the length of a seconds-pendulumas the definition of the unit of length and of using a standard-sized cube ofwater as the basis for mass. The resultant French system bore many similaritiesto Jefferson’s and to Wilkins’ proposals and was imposed on France with theintention that it should be “for all people for all time”.
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