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Acre
An acre describes an area of land and comes from the old English word aecer, meaning a ploughed field. It was the area a team of oxen could plough in one day. In the UK in 1824, an acre was set as 4,840 square yards
Celsius
A temperature scale invented in 1742 Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius A Celsius degree is 1/100th of the difference between the freezing and boiling points of water (0 and 100)
Fahrenheit This temperature scale was devised by German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit. On this scale the freezing point of water is 32"
Foot
Foot originally meant the average length of an adult foot, and has been used since ancient times Before France invented the metric system, the French foot was based on the length of the Emperor Charlemagne's foot.
Gram/kilogram
Gram comes from the same ancient Greek word that gave us grammar, and means a marked-off division. A kilogram 51.000 grams. Kilo comes from the Greek chilioi, meaning one thousand.
Hundredweight/ton
A hundredweight is 1/20th of a on British or long hundredweight is A 112 pounds, and a long ton is 2.240 pounds an Americano short hundredweight is 100 pounds A short ton is 2.000 pounds
Metre
Metre comes from the ancient Greek metron, meaning measure The metre was introduced in France in june 1799 after the Revolution. The metres first set as one ten-millionth of a quarter of the circumference of the Earth. A metre was later set as the distance between two lines on a metal bar which was kept in a special office in Sevres, France. The distance is now calculated by a more precise method It is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 th of a second A centimetre from the French cerit, meaning one hundred) is 1/100th of a metre. A millimeter is 1,000th of a metre and a kilometre is 1,000 metres.
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