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The term for telescopes persisted even in the 20th century, with a telescope listed in the 1909 Sears Roebuck catalog of having 25 lignes diameter aperture, or about 56 mm (5.6 cm). [5] The measurement SPI (Stitches per inch) for leather pricking irons and stitch marking wheels also commonly uses the Paris inch instead of the Imperial inch.
Many pre-metric units were reintroduced, with their old relations to each other, but were redefined in terms of metric units. Thus the aune was defined as 120 centimetres and the toise (fathom) as being two metres, with as before six pied (feet) making up one toise, twelve pouce (inches) making up one pied and twelve lignes making up one pouce.
Table of the measuring units used in the 17th century at Pernes-les-Fontaines in the covered market at Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Although in the pre-revolutionary era (before 1795) France used a system and units of measure that had many of the characteristics of contemporary English units (or the later Imperial System of units), France still lacked a unified ...
The standardized conversion for a ligne is 2.2558291 mm (1 mm = 0.443296 ligne), [4] and it is abbreviated with the letter L or represented by the triple prime, ‴. [5] One ligne is the equivalent of 0.0888 international inch. This is comparable in size to the British measurement called "line" (one-twelfth of an English inch), used prior to ...
conversion combination output units SI: square kilometre: km2 km 2: US spelling: square kilometer: 1.0 km 2 (0.39 sq mi) km2 sqmi; square metre: m2 m 2: US spelling: square meter: 1.0 m 2 (11 sq ft) m2 sqft; square centimetre: cm2 cm 2: US spelling: square centimeter: 1.0 cm 2 (0.16 sq in) cm2 sqin; square millimetre: mm2 mm 2: US spelling ...
The sheriff's department provided an update around 4:30 p.m. thanking the public for helping to locate the baby's family. "As an update, our investigators have been in contact with the family ...
Shortly before 6 a.m. on the morning after Christmas, Patsy Ramsey called 911. She had awakened, she later told police, to find her daughter missing and a two-and-a-half-page note left on the ...
= 0.081 829 62 m 3: lambda: λ ≡ 1 mm 3 = 1 × 10 −9 m 3: last: ≡ 80 bu (imp) = 2.909 4976 m 3: litre (liter) L or l ≡ 1 dm 3 [19] ≡ 0.001 m 3: load: ≡ 50 cu ft = 1.415 842 3296 m 3: minim (imperial) min ≡ 1 ⁄ 480 fl oz (imp) = 1/60 fl dr (imp) = 59.193 880 208 3 × 10 −9 m 3: minim (US) min ≡ 1 ⁄ 480 US fl oz = 1 ⁄ 60 ...