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The significance of the metric act of 1866 was they recognized the metric system as a legal system of measurement in the United States.
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Some early tools that aided measurement were the human body and the cubit rods.
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Major engineering blunders that results of faulty measurement were: the error in conversion of mm. to in., resulting in the loss of the Venus probe; also different use of measuring systems (metric and standard) of the USA and Europe, caused the Mars climate orbiter to be abolished.
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The French Academy of Science created the metric system because having different, incompatible systems made scientific and commercial information difficult to use and exchange.
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