Fast-forward to 1975, and Congress, along with President Gerald Ford, established the U.S. Metric Board to help the country gradually transition to the metric system.

Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 Dubai: In a bid to protect consumers, Dubai Municipality has launched an initiative to ensure that all supermarkets and food outlets adopt standardised weighing devices that use ...

However, for many engines, their size is actually measured in a metric scale, specifically the metric unit of volume, liters.