Chapter 159: The Irresponsible Director of the Royal Gunpowder Bureau

Thinking about the unification of measurement standards, Joseph couldn't help but sigh.

Speaking of which, the French Academy of Sciences, under the proposal of several academic heavyweights, had long been ready to set up a "Standards Committee" to work on the unification of measurement standards—it could be said that France's scientific community was extremely forward-looking, as this was the first such initiative in Europe.

However, influenced by the terrifying efficiency of the current bureaucratic system, it took several years for the Academy to even finish discussing the funding application, and so the Standards Committee fell by the wayside.

Historically, it wasn't until after the Great Revolution that the initiative was finally implemented with the support of the National Convention.

The efforts of France's Standards Committee also drove the establishment of the international metric system, paving the way for France's industrialization.