[DOC] [TLE] History of the metric system - Wikipedia [PAR] Concepts similar to those behind the metric system had been discussed in the 
16th and 17th ... In 1837 the metric system was re-adopted by France, and also 
during the first half of .... These symbols evolved into the numerals "0", "1", "2" etc. 
.... Talleyrand's proposal of 1790, the Assemble set up a new committee under 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Antoine Lavoisier - Wikipedia [PAR] Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 
18th-century ... Lavoisier helped construct the metric system, wrote the first 
extensive list of .... He also chaired the commission set up to establish a uniform 
system of ... His name is one of the 72 names of eminent French scientists, 
engineers... [DOC] [TLE] Antoine Lavoisier - Biography, Facts and Pictures - Famous Scientists [PAR] His father was Jean-Antoine Lavoisier, a lawyer in the Paris Parliament. ... He 
found oxygen made up 20 percent of air and was vital for combustion and 
respiration. He also ... Starting in 1791, Lavoisier served on the committee of the 
French Academy of Sciences which developed the metric system of 
measurement. [DOC] [TLE] Who invented the metric system? - Metrication matters [PAR] An English bishop, John Wilkins, (1614-1672) invented the system part of the ... 
in English on secret codes; writer of one of the first science fiction books about a 
trip ... Wilkins' short proposal for a 'universal measure' in 1668 contained almost 
all .... The existence of French men and women around 1790 was made 
miserable... [DOC] [TLE] Lavoisier - Information Technology [PAR] One of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based 
upon a ... In 1790, in the midst of the French Revolution, the National Assembly of 
France requested ... The architect of the revolution was one man  Antoine 
Lavoisier. ... Proof of the validity of Lavoisier's Oxygen Theory came when 
Lavoisier. [DOC] [TLE] Measurement in the Modern World - Books - IOPscience [PAR] The systems of weights and measures that existed in France on the eve of the ... 
In 1790, Talleyrand made a report to the National Constituent Assembly on the 
state ..... Lavoisier called it 'the most important mission that any man has ever 
been .... Sadly for Mchain, statistics had yet to be invented, and so he could not 
use a... [DOC] [TLE] The Foundation of the Metric System in France in the 1790s [PAR] On 22nd July I799 the definitive standards of the metric system, the platinum 
metre and the ... for measuring length and mass in France (2). ... one system to 
another. ... sures came in 1670 from a Frenchman, Gabriel ... this length set up in 
Lyon, which would oscillate ... Lavoisier expressed some weights as decimal fiac-
. [DOC] [TLE] Corwin Chemistry, 4e [PAR] Antoine Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry, praised the metric system as 
follows: "Never has ... A kilogram was equal to the mass of a cube of water one-
tenth of a meter on each side. ... In 1790, the French government appointed a 
committee of scientists to investigate the possibility of a universal measuring 
system. [DOC] [TLE] PRIESTLEY AND LAVOISIER - School of Chemical Sciences [PAR] The trial of Lavoisier and the Tax Farm, a 19th century reconstruction from the ... 
sition, he served on committees of the Academy of Sciences ... died; on 1 August, 
Priestley discovered oxygen, and in Octo- ... gun powder and the system of 
manufacturing it. France changed from an importer to an ... nothing ever came of 
them. [DOC] [TLE] 7 The Measure of Enlightenment - UC Press E-Books Collection ... [PAR] The existence of French men and women around 1790 was made miserable ... 
Reformers laid down several requirements for a new system of weights and 
measures. .... The linking would pit the small repeating circle then recently 
invented by .... to a committee composed of Borda, Lagrange, Lavoisier, Tillet, 
and Condorcet. [DOC] [TLE] The International Bureau of Weights and Measures ... - NIST Page [PAR] May 20,

Question: Lavoisier was one of the men on the committee that came up with this measurement system in 1790s France
Answer: metric system