Appendix A: James Watt and the metric system
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This appendix is about the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures, and includes extracts of a letter from Prof. Archibald Barr (Director of the James Watt Engineering Laboratory at the University of Glasgow) to Lord Kelvin.
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