The Mendenhall Order of 1893
In 1890, an official document was created specifying the fundamental standards for length and mass, based on metric units, including conversion standards.
This was called the International Prototype Metre (for length) and the International Prototype Kilogram (for mass) and was stipulated in 1893, and later refined in 1959.
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