NIST Colloquium Series: The Measure of All Things

NIST Colloquium Series: The Measure of All Things Tube. Duration : 73.90 Mins.

In this session from the NIST Colloquium Series, Ken Adler, author of "The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World", tells the story of the seven-year, trouble-filled 18th century expedition that established the distance for the meter ... and about the secret "error" held from the public about this famous measurement.

Keywords: NIST Colloquium Series, The Measure of All Things, Ken Adler, Odyssey, secret, measurement, government, meter, France, history, longitude, latitude