Editing International System of Units (section)

=== Metre Convention ===

{{Main|Metre Convention |MKS system of units}}
A French-inspired initiative for international cooperation in [[metrology]] led to the signing in 1875 of the [[Metre Convention]], also called Treaty of the Metre, by 17 nations.{{efn|Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, German Empire, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Ottoman Empire, United States, and Venezuela.}}<ref name="Alder">{{cite book |title=The Measure of all Things – The Seven-Year-Odyssey that Transformed the World |author-last=Alder |author-first=Ken |date=2002 |publisher=Abacus |location=London |isbn=978-0-349-11507-8}}</ref>{{rp|pages=353–354}} The [[General Conference on Weights and Measures]] (French: {{lang|fr|Conférence générale des poids et mesures}} – CGPM), which was established by the Metre Convention,<ref name="BIPMCentenary"/> brought together many international organisations to establish the definitions and standards of a new system and to standardise the rules for writing and presenting measurements.<ref name=Giunta/>{{rp|page=37}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Quinn |first=Terry J. |title=From artefacts to atoms: the BIPM and the search for ultimate measurement standards |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-530786-3 |location=New York Oxford}}</ref> Initially the convention only covered standards for the metre and the kilogram. This became the foundation of the MKS system of units.<ref name=NIST330/>{{rp|page=2}}