Standards: The metric system: Its status and future: The U.S. creeps reluctantly toward metrication; the electrical engineering profession encounters few problems

Progress toward metric conversion in the U.S., although less advanced than some would prefer, is occurring even without an enunciated national plan. A report by the National Bureau of Standards in 1971. A metric America: a decision whose time has come, proposed the voluntary phase-in of the metric system of measurement over a 10-year period. That period is now almost over, but it is clear that the metric system is not about to become the predominant measurement system in this country.