World Metric Standardization, an Urgent Issue: A Volume of Testimony Urging Worldwide Adoption of the Metric Units of Weights and Measures; Meter, Liter, Gram (Classic Reprint)

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Herbert Hoover, United States Secretary of Commerce, speak ing before the 1921 National Conference on Weights and Meas ures, declared: Standardization is an outstanding necessity in the mind of every engineer desirous of the advance of industry and commerce. The whole conception of standardization has changed in recent years and has come to the first rank in importance.

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