Excerpt from A Survey of the National Metric Speakers Bureau The National Metric Speakers Bureau was established by the Metric Information Office of the National Bureau of Standards (nbs) in January 1976. This was in response to the rapidly growing interest in the metric system and metric conversion, caused in part by the signing of the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. Nbs was getting a very large number of inquiries about securing metric speakers for seminars, conferences, classes, service clubs, and training sessions. As a result, the Metric Information Office invited, through personal contact and metric-related national organizations, persons knowledgeable about the metric system to become speakers with the Speakers Bureau. The number of speakers at the end of 1976 was 273, with at least one in every State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.