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• - Catalogue of traditional British units with historical notes.
  
• - A site promoting the metric system which argues why metric is better and English is worse. Provides an English-metric online calculator.
  
• - Provides translation of unit and prefix names for the international metric system (SI) into various languages. For some, transliterations are also given.
  
• - Conversions and equivalences of the principal units of measure of the SI and Anglo-Saxon systems.
  
• - Conversion table of non-metric measures into SI and CGS.
  
• - Official imperial-to-metric conversion tables.
  
• - Factsheets, regulations and conversion tools. Official site of the United States Metric Program.
  
• - Conversion factors and online calculators for metric and imperial units.
  
• - Outline of the metric system with emphasis on applications in physics.
  
• - More than 40 different unit conversion tables.
  
• - Online conversions from physics units to other physics units. Includes a comprehensive set of units with definitions.
  
• - Definitions of SI units and SI prefixes, units outside the SI, rules and style conventions, historical context for SI units, international aspects of the SI, and unit conversions.
  
• - Pressure group campaigning for the completion of metrication in the UK. History, legislation, and practical help.
  
• - A dictionary of units of measurement: explanations of the metric system, System Internationale (SI), English customary system, and other modern measuring systems. Plus extensive links to other measurement-related Internet resources.
  
• - Pressure group opposing compulsory metrication. Political, consumer and transport information, discussion boards and links.
  
• - Simple Celsius-Fahrenheit conversions.
  
• - Table of conversion factors for selected units relevant to nuclear topics.
  
• - Standard-to-metric conversion factor tables with definitions, derived units and prefixes.
  
• - Dictionary of metric units explaining the principles and history of the system.
  
• - Reference information on the International System of Units (SI).
  
• - History and usage of English/Imperial/customary weights and measures, with conversion factors, and pictures. Minims, drachms, pecks, bushels, rods, poles, perches, furlongs, ounces, fathoms, pints, gallons, nails, chains, chaldrons, tods, crowns, florins,