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The New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad used 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) The Pontchartrain Railroad used 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) The trams in Nuremberg nominally used 1,432 mm (4 ft 8 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) during much of their existence, but have since been converted to standard gauge in name as well as fact.
Europe. Australia. 4 ft 8 in gauge railways are railways with a track gauge of 4 ft 8 in / 1,422 mm. This gauge is 1⁄2 inch (13 mm) less than 4 ft 81⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge The first such railways were the Killingworth Railway [1] [2] and the Stockton and Darlington Railway [note 1]
Track gauge. Originally, various track gauges were used in the United States. Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge of 4 ft 8⁄ in ( 1,435 mm ); others used gauges ranging from 2 ft ( 610 mm) to 6 ft ( 1,829 mm ). As a general rule, southern railroads were built to one or another broad gauge, mostly 5 ft ( 1,524 mm ...
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 small city near St. Louis, Missouri.
8.76 m 2 94.3 sq ft the square of the standard 10-foot measuring rod actus simplex 480 pedes qu. 42.1 m 2 453 sq ft 4 × 120 pedes [12] uncia 2,400 pedes qu. 210 m 2 2,260 sq ft clima 3,600 pedes qu. 315 m 2 3,390 sq ft 60 × 60 pedes [12] actus quadratus or acnua 14,400 pedes qu. 1,262 m 2 13,600 sq ft
≡ 1 ft/(h⋅s) = 8.4 6 × 10 −5 m/s 2: foot per minute per second: fpm/s ≡ 1 ft/(min⋅s) = 5.08 × 10 −3 m/s 2: foot per second squared: fps 2: ≡ 1 ft/s 2 = 3.048 × 10 −1 m/s 2: gal; galileo: Gal ≡ 1 cm/s 2 = 10 −2 m/s 2: inch per minute per second: ipm/s ≡ 1 in/(min⋅s) = 4.2 3 × 10 −4 m/s 2: inch per second squared ...
Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, [ 1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [ 2][ 3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system. [ 4][ 5] In the early phase of ...
Thus thousands of men under this height were denied the opportunity to fight in the war. As a result of pressure to allow them entry, special "Bantam Battalions" were created composed of men who were 4 feet 10 inches (147 cm) to 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm). By the end of the war there were 29 Bantam Battalions of about 1,000 men each.