International System of Units (SI): How the World Measures Almost Everything, and the People Who Made It Possible

(SI) (Print On-Demand Edition) is a one-of-a-kind book. It provides detailed information on the metric system, its origin, history, and how the base and derived units were established. The book has four chapters (Measurement Systems, the International System of Units, Metrication in the United States, and United States Metric Association), appendices, an afterword, and references. The book is principally aimed at educating students in the United States, but it will also be of interest to anyone who enjoys the popular sciences. This is a Print-On-Demand title. It has a CD-ROM companion (ISBN 978-0-8311-3466-2) for which publication has ceased. Signatories to the Meter Convention (Treaty of the Meter) Associate States of the CGPM CGPM Meetings Prefixes for Multiples and Submultiples of the SI units Medals awarded to scientists, after whom the units of measurement are named Standard Inductor Values The Sixteen Bronze Statues Temperature Conversion Formulas –