Talk:Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States

Such a long title!!
Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States is seriously long. The Jefferson report, referenced here, would be a lot shorter. Otr500 (talk) 02:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC) this is no longer one of the constituion Bold text

Congress and standard measurements in law
I realize it's hard to cite a negative, but could someone back up the claim that congress has never taken up standard measurements? --24.252.51.229 (talk) 21:55, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Just edited the page to address this exact point, among others. Congress has officially designated units of measure, but piecemeal--nothing like Jefferson's grand unified proposals. Pfly (talk) 06:03, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

What Latitude - Really?
At one point the article states the seconds pendulum is at 45N, and at another point "the latitude of Paris." Paris is at nearly 49N, while Bordeaux in southern France is closer to 45N. So which was it? 45N, or the latitude of Paris? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.71.254.248 (talk) 22:06, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Pendulum vs Meridian
"This and other developments changed what had promised to be an internationally developed system into a strictly French project." I am confused by this sentence as at least for me it's open for 2 ways of interpretation: 1. The Act itself of Measuring the meter for the first time was restricted to France. - Kind of, yes as the length of the meridian was being exactly measured in France. But no one would have stopped Jefferson or the US to do the measurement in their country as well 2. The Measurement of the Meter was based on something exclusive to France. - That's a clear no. They changed from the rod to the meridian BECAUSE with the rod it would be limited to measure the meter solely at a certain latitude (45 N) while the length of the meridian is always the same on the globe and it can be measured from any location (Modern Sciences tells us that the earth is not a perfect ball, so this is actually not possible). The idea behind the decision was therefore not to restrict it to France but to open it up even further. LordMoff (talk) 01:53, 17 February 2023 (UTC)