I love you, a bushel and a peck - or maybe an acre, or fathom, or hundredweight, or any of the thousands of measurements we have created, which somebody has to establish and standardize, like the meter, one way or the other

60. Mètre des Archives (original standard meter), 1799

A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world.  Telling the stories 
of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society 
and its never ending evolution.

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A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world. Telling the stories of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society and its never ending evolution.

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60. Mètre des Archives (original standard meter), 1799

60. Mètre des Archives (original standard meter), 1799