- Author
- Page, C. H. | Vigoureux, P.
- Title
- International Bureau of Weights and Measures 1875-1975. Translation of BIPM Centennial Volume.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD National Physical Lab., Teddington, England
- Report
- NBS SP 420, May 1975, 256 p.
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Keywords
- measurement
- Abstract
- The metric system was made legal by Congress in 1866, the United States of America signed the Treaty of the Metre in 1875, and we have been active in international coordination of measurements since that time. In science, in pharmacology, and increasingly in industry, the United States is making ever greater use of the International System of Units (SI). In view of this ongoing conversion to the metric system, the celebration of both the Centennial of the Treay and the first century of metrology at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) holds considerable interest for the American public. It therefore gives me great pleasure to make available this translation of the BIPM's Official Centennial volume.