TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crease, Robert
TI  - World in the balance : : the historic wuest for an absolute system of measurement 
AV  - GC QC 83 .C74 2012 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - WW Norton & Company
KW  - Measurement ; Metrology ; Weights and measures
N2  - 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
ER  -