Why The Us Still Measures In Feet

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How Caribbean privateers hijacked the metric system

hank A massive storm blew Dombey's ship off course into the Caribbean, where British-backed privateers captured him and stole the metric standards.

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hank In 1794, French scientist Joseph Dombey set sail for America carrying the world's first official metric standards to present to Thomas Jefferson.

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Fun Facts

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The missing weight: The copper kilogram stolen by pirates in 1794 eventually ended up with an American surveyor and is now owned by the US government.

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On which Caribbean island did the captured French scientist Joseph Dombey die in captivity?

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What was the name of the French scientist captured by pirates while carrying the metric prototypes?

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Who replaced Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State before another French metric emissary could arrive?

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What kind of pirates captured the ship carrying the metric standards?

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Which country sent a scientist with metric standards to the US in 1794?

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Who was the US Secretary of State in 1790 who wanted a decimal measurement system?

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What happened to the physical copper kilogram that was stolen by the pirates?

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Why did France want the United States to adopt the metric system in the 1790s?

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Glossary

privateer (noun)
An armed private ship or its commander licensed by a government to attack and plunder enemy vessels. In 1794, British privateers captured a French vessel carrying the early metric standards meant for Thomas Jefferson.