Crease, Robert <br/><br/>
World in the balance :   the historic wuest for an absolute system of measurement / 

 - WW Norton & Company  2012 
 - 317 pages 
<br/><br/> How much? How many? How far? Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. But achieving such a network was anything but easy, as Robert P. Crease, physicist and philosopher, demonstrates in this endlessly enlightening, always enjoyable look at how this international system evolved. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Measurement ; Metrology ; Weights and measures
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GC QC 83 .C74 2012