Weights and Measures
Some pages you may find of interest.
Other Internet sources
- Maryland Metrics
Complete metric hardware source in USA - many information pages
- the virtual reference desk - Purdue University
Keep this address !
(Census data, maps, telephone directories, dictionaries, conversion tables, calendars, ...)
- Bob's world - Weights and Measures
Program to download + other info
- Entisoft conversion calculator
or see the next one
- Entisoft units
rather complete list of units and equivalencies - alphabetical order
- About temperature
Documentation for teachers
- Conversion of units
University of Berlin - Germany
- Weights & Measures
All you want to know about measures in agriculture (wheat, corn, ...)
- Go Metric !
Short list of equivalencies
- common weights and measures
Tables from Berkeley
- Planet Earth home page
some addresses hidden at the bottom
- Warren idea exchange
about paper sizes ...
- Other weighing links
Quite a few, indeed.
- Periodic Tables - Weights & Measures
University of Alabama - Gorgas Library
- Yahoo ! site on weights and Measures
Essentially metric system, but also calendars, etc.
- Metric sites of interest
American Society of Civil Engineers - Committee on Metrication
- Histoire du pesage (In French)

History of weighing
- Gene's Measurements and Weather Page
Interesting reflexions on units - quite good : Gene enjoys accuracy !
- Unités anglo-saxonnes (In French)

Intro to Anglo-Saxon units from faraway.
- Weights and Measures - prgone
Quizzes for seniors and activity directors.
- Weights and Measures
List of other sites, with evaluation (by teachers, obviously).
- A dictionary of measures
Well organized. By Frank Tapson - University of Exeter
- USMA
VERY nice page of the US Metric Association, by Don Hillger. Lots of info.
- History of the meter
NIST page.
- Ancient Norwegian measurements
a nice file by Tom Bjornstad - Medieval Scandinavian web page.
- Les débuts du Système Métrique (In French)

A wealth of information on the very beginning of the metric system.
- megaConverter Home Page
Many units - original design (and a downloadable Excel spreadsheet)
- BIPM home page - the official SI source
Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (French & English)
- Russ Rowlett dictionary of measures
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Last updated : May 13, 1999
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