The metric system: arguments for and against – archive, 5 February 1910
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5 February 1910: A debate held last night allowed both sides to put forward their views on this contentious subject
Some of the arguments for and against the substitution of the metric system for the system of weights and measures now in use in this country were summed up at a debate held by the Manchester Society of Chemical Industry last night. Mr J Hoseason was in the chair.
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