In the meantime, a new system of weights and measures, developed by French scientists following the Revolution of 1789, gained increasing international use. This metric system had as its fundamental ...

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No such simple relations existed in standard units of ... In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.