-The powers reflect the absolute need for usage of accurate, uniform gauges of time, distance, area, weights, volume, and the like.
-The Constitution gives the congress the power to "fix the standard of weights and measures" throughout the United States.
-In 1838 congress set the English system of pound, ounce, mile, foot, gallon, quart, and so on, as the legal standards of weights and measures in this country. In 1866 congress also legalized the use of the metric system.
-The National Institute of standards and technology in the commerce department keeps the original standards for the united states. It is these standards by which all other measures in the United States are tested and corrected.
-The Constitution gives the congress the power to "fix the standard of weights and measures" throughout the United States.
-In 1838 congress set the English system of pound, ounce, mile, foot, gallon, quart, and so on, as the legal standards of weights and measures in this country. In 1866 congress also legalized the use of the metric system.
-The National Institute of standards and technology in the commerce department keeps the original standards for the united states. It is these standards by which all other measures in the United States are tested and corrected.