Why do the British/Americans use the imperial system of measurement?
France created the Metric System and adopted it among many other things with the reforms that followed the French Revolution. Napoleon spread the French reforms in all continental Europe. With the Metric System used in all Europe, it quickly spread around the world. Britain refused for a long time to adopt the superior but “French” system. Some years ago the Metric System was adopted in Britain, even if Imperial units are still widely used throughout the country. The USA are one of the only 3 countries in the world (with Liberia and Burma) who didn’t adopt the Metric System, though it’s used by the vast majority of sicentists. The American government tried to adopt the Metric System but it failed because Americans liked the “old” system and also because it would have been very expensive to convert everything. Fred Flintstone: “The British system developed over a 1000 years to be relevant to life. They are retained because they are much more useful than the simplistic metric system deve
