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Measuring America is the fascinating provocative and eyeopening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measuresthe American Customary System unlike any other in the worldand how this has profoundly shaped our country and culture In the process Measuring America reveals the colossal power contained inside the acres and miles ounces and pounds that we use every day without ever realizing their significanceThe most urgent problem facing the newly independent United States was how to pay for the war that won the country its freedom Americas debt was enormous Its greatest asset was the land west of the Ohio River but for this huge territory to be sold it had first to be surveyedthat is measured out and mapped And before that could be done a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic English Scottish German Dutch Scandinavian and other settlers had all brought their own systems with them more than 100000 different units are reckoned to have been in daily use and in his first address to Congress George Washington put the establishment of a single system of weights and measures immediately after a national defense and a currency as the United States most urgent priorityThe debate on this vital measure took place at a critical moment in the history of ideas when the traditional subjective view of the world was being increasingly challenged by objective scientific reasoning Thomas Jeffersonsupported by Washington Adams Madison Monroe even Hamiltonchampioned the new idea of a scientific 10based system derived from some universal constant such as time or the size of the earth Such an alliance should have ensured a decimal America but ranged against them was the invisible genius of Edmund Gunter the seventeenthcentury English mathematician whose twentytwoyard surveying chain introduced in 1607 had revolutionized land ownership in Britain and was still used by every surveyor in Americaincluding Thomas Hutchins and his successors in charge of the land survey on the Ohio frontierHow we ultimately gained the American Customary Systemthe last traditional system in the worldand how Gunters chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land on cities and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history At a time when the metric system may finally be unstoppable Andro Linklater has captured the essential nature of measurement just as the Founding Fathers understood it Sagely argued and beautifully written Measuring America offers readers nothing less than the opportunity to see Americas historyand our democracyin a brilliant new light. 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Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System — the last traditional system in the world — and how one man\'s surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast. Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures—the American Customary System, unlike any other in the world—and how this has profoundly shaped our country and culture. In the process, Measuring America reveals the colossal power contained inside the acres and miles, ounces and pounds, that we use every day without ever realizing their significance.The most urgent problem facing the newly independent United States was how to pay for the war that won the country its freedom America\'s debt was enormous. Its greatest asset was the land west of the Ohio River, but for this huge territory to be sold, it had first to be surveyed—that is, measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic. English, Scottish, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, and other settlers had all brought their own systems with them (more than 100,000 different units are reckoned to have been in daily use), and in his first address to Congress, George Washington put the establishment of a single system of weights and measures immediately after a national defense and a currency as the United States\' most urgent priority.The debate on this vital measure took place at a critical moment in the history of ideas, when the traditional, subjective view of the world was being increasingly challenged by objective, scientific reasoning. Thomas Jefferson—supported by Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe, even Hamilton—championed the new idea of a scientific 10-based system derived from some universal constant such as time or the size of the earth. Such an alliance should have ensured a decimal America, but ranged against them was the invisible genius of Edmund Gunter, the seventeenth-century English mathematician whose twenty-two-yard surveying chain, introduced in 1607, had revolutionized land ownership in Britain and was still used by every surveyor in America—including Thomas Hutchins and his successors in charge of the land survey on the Ohio frontier.How we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how Gunter\'s chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. At a time when the metric system may finally be unstoppable, Andro Linklater has captured the essential nature of measurement just as the Founding Fathers understood it. Sagely argued and beautifully written, Measuring America offers readers nothing less than the opportunity to see America\'s history—and our democracy—in a brilliant new light. In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation\'s greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in daily useage. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System — the last traditional system in the world — and how one man\'s surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.