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the main attempt was to create a system that can be used internationally as a standard for weight, distance, volume and temperature. this would unite the scientific community and the commercial endeavours
In 1790, the National Assembly of France asked the French Academy of Sciences to create a standard system of weights and measures, thus the metric system was created. By 1960, it had developed into...
The French Academy of Science did not create the metric system. The French were instrumental in instituting the metric system, but the ideas that set things in motion were those of English clergyman...
In 1790, The National Assembly of France asked the French Academy of Science to create a standard system of weights and measures, thus the metric system.