Assertion: metric system | /r/HasProperty | developed
Facets:
value: originally
type: MANNER
value: during the french revolution
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The metric system was developed during the French Revolution to replace the various measures previously used in France.
text: When the metric system was being developed, France was using the French Republican Calendar which was falling in disuse and was finally abolished due in part to two design faults: dates were counted from the day the French First Republic was proclaimed and the names of the months were related to purely local events, such as Brumaire (Misty), Nivose (Snowy) which did not hold true even within the French territory itself.
text: When the metric system was originally developed, the standard unit for mass was the mass of a litre of water at the ice point — basically the same as today’s kilogram, although at the time it was called the “grave