From the Scientific Monthly, March 1917, an article promoting the metric system, written by Dr Arthur E Kennelly, Sc.D. A.M. Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The article opens with:

It is now generally admitted by the great majority of intelligent persons in America, that the metric system is a much simpler and better system than the customary Anglo-American system of weights and measures. Including all the units appearing in our regular American school lists of length, area, volume, dry measure, 'apothecaries' measure, liquid measure, cord measure, avoirdupois and troy weight, there are in vogue about forty units with numerous and miscellaneous numerical cross ratios; whereas the metric system employs only two - the meter and the gram, with derivatives, provided it be admitted that a decimal derivative is merely the same unit with a shift of the decimal place.

106 years later, how much has changed?

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