Different countries have different standards and customs regarding measurements, and it helps to be mindful of that. For example, measuring length at a construction site in the The United States uses ...

07.01.2012 – His Hand by Jlhopgood/flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0. 10. The Hand. If we have the foot, why not the hand? Using a clenched fist or the breadth of a hand as a unit of measurement goes back to ...

Apple Maps application supports you to change the measurement unit between km, mile, and miles, depending on each person's ...

Cups don’t measure weight, but work on volume – and this is where the confusion often comes in. While a standard cup is around 240ml, because of the different weights and volumes of some ...

The US went on to develop their own units, called customary units, which were used until the US and UK made efforts to align their unit definitions in 1959, creating the measurements that are most ...