""The War of the Standards"" is a historical novel written by Albion Winegar Tourgee and published in 1896. The book is set in the late 1800s during a time when the United States was undergoing significant technological and industrial changes. The story follows the lives of two families, the Fairbanks and the Wainwrights, who are caught up in a bitter conflict over the adoption of a new standard for weights and measures.The Fairbanks family, who are...