Why the US uses the imperial system. Because of the British, of course. When the British Empire colonized North America hundreds of years ago, it brought with it the British Imperial System, which was itself a tangled mess of sub-standardized medieval weights and measurements. The gallon and the fluid ounce The main reason that cars in Canada can go farther on a gallon of gas than cars in the United States can is simple — the imperial gallon that was used in Canada is bigger than the US gallon.
The imperial gallon is fluid ounces, and the US gallon is only Miles and gallons are imperial measurements that are used in the United States. Metric conversion was the process of making metric units — such as metre, kilogram and degree Celsius — the common units of measurement in Canada, leaving the British imperial system with units such as yard, gallon and pound behind.
This difference dates back to , when the British Weights and Measures Act standardized various liquid measures throughout the British Empire, while the United States continued to use the earlier English measure. Abbreviation: gal. The imperial gallon is a unit for measuring a volume of liquid or the capacity of a container for storing liquid, not the mass of a liquid.
The U. One imperial gallon is equivalent to approximately 1. The gallon is a unit of measurement used for liquids such as gasoline, water, and milk in the United States. The gallon originated as the base of systems for measuring wine and beer in England. The sizes of gallon used in these two systems were different from each other: the first was based on the wine gallon equal in size to the US gallon , and the second one either the ale gallon or the larger imperial gallon.
Wine for being more dense than wheat, gives a smaller gallon. This gallon was cu inches, using a Mercantile pound of 15 tower ounces, but became larger as larger pounds were used. In , the British Parliament defined the imperial gallon as the volume of ten pounds of water at standard temperature.
As with all wrenches, you have the choice between U. American cars are assembled with nuts and bolts that use standard measurements while foreign cars almost exclusively use metric measurements. Still, the U.
An easy way to figure from liters to gallons, for example, is that a quart is a little less than a liter and 4 liters is a little more than 1 gallon. To be exact, 1 liter is 0. The US fluid gallon is about One US gallon is defined as 3. Here is the breakdown of volume between the two countries: The British Imperial fluid ounce is equal to The British Imperial pint is The biggest reasons the U. When the Industrial Revolution began in the country, expensive manufacturing plants became a main source of American jobs and consumer products.
Why is 'football' one sport over here and a totally different one over there? Why is a gallon not a gallon? Am I even real any more, or just an animation of a reflection of a hologram? Think of language mapped out in a kind of family tree. Once, hundreds of years ago, British people and American colonialists were all perched on the same branches of the family, way at the top of the tree, speaking the same language and walking the same land.
Then a bunch of people from the UK went and settled in the US, and for a couple of hundred years, had very little contact with the original branch across the ocean.
Just as stories, recipes and traditions evolve and grow in different segments of different families, so does language. Way back - at the time we all lived together - we had used the Queen Anne's gallon of 3. We also had different volumes and names to measure both beer and grain.
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