The latest major revision for SI units proposed by International Committee for Weights and Measures (commonly known as CIPM for its French name Comite international des poids et mesuress) was approved by voting of member states in the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures (commonly known as CGPM) held […]

Nations which traded and exchanged scientific ideas with each other had started realising the importance and necessity of standardisation of weights and measures which became much more apparent by the mid-eighteenth century. In 1790 France sent a proposal to Britain and the United States to establish a uniform measure of […]