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2. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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   Standard metric foot sizes can be converted to the nearest Paris point (2 ⁄ 3 cm) sizes using approximate conversion tables; shoes are marked with both foot length in millimetres, as for pointe ballet shoe sizes, and last length in European Paris point sizes (although such converted Stichmaß sizes may come 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 size smaller than ...

3. Brannock Device - Wikipedia

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   The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size. Brannock spent two years developing a simple means of measuring the length, width, and arch length of the human foot. He eventually improved on the wooden RITZ Stick, the industry standard of the day, [2] patenting his first ...

4. Barleycorn (unit) - Wikipedia

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   A chart of Imperial and United States customary units. The barleycorn is an English unit of length [1] equal to 1 ⁄ 3 of an inch (i.e. about 8.47 mm). It is still used as the basis of shoe sizes in English-speaking countries.

5. Shoe-fitting fluoroscope - Wikipedia

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   Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, were X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Germany and Switzerland. [1] In the UK, they were known as Pedoscopes, after the ...

6. Shoe - Wikipedia

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   European sizes are measured in Paris Points, while the UK and American units are based on whole-number sizes spaced at one barleycorn (1/3 inch) with UK adult sizes starting at size 1 = 8 + 2 ⁄ 3 in (22.0 cm). In the US, this is size 2. Men's and women's shoe sizes often use different scales [citation needed], and some systems are measured ...

7. Robert Wadlow - Wikipedia

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   Tallest verified human in recorded history. Height. 8 ft 11.1 in (272.0 cm) Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a ...