Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren’t they?

  • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yes, you’re right.

    There have been multiple iterations of the “metric system” since it’s introduction in 1792–1795, most notably the original 1795 draft variant, then the CGS (Centimeter-Gram-Second) version, then the MKS (meter-kilogram-second) variant, with the most recent incarnation being the International System of Units (SI).

    That’s why there are plenty of metric units, but not all of them are SI units. :)

     

    Edit: Changed “1892–1895” to “1792–1795”. Lol, whoops.