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Human height measurement using a stadiometer. 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.
The shortest player ever in the old American Basketball Association (1967–76) was Penny Ann Early, a 5-foot-3-inch (160 cm) jockey who took part in one play in one game for the Kentucky Colonels as a publicity stunt in 1969. (The shortest signed ABA players were Jerry Dover and Monte Towe, both 5 feet 7 inches or 170 centimetres.)
180 cm: 1 ⁄ 2 in 1 cm 1904: Theodore Roosevelt: 5 ft 10 in 178 cm: Alton B. Parker [58] 5 ft 9 in 175 cm: 1 in 3 cm 1900: William McKinley: 5 ft 7 in 170 cm: William Jennings Bryan: 5 ft 11 in 180 cm: 4 in 10 cm 1896: William McKinley: 5 ft 7 in 170 cm: William Jennings Bryan: 5 ft 11 in 180 cm: 4 in 10 cm 1892: Grover Cleveland: 5 ft 11 in ...
175.6 cm (5 ft 9 in) 161.8 cm (5 ft 3 + 1 ... 180.4 cm (5 ft 11 in) 167.2 cm (5 ft 6 in) 1.08: Conscripts, 18–20 (N= m:38,025) 5.3%: Measured:
This is a list of the tallest people, verified by Guinness World Records or other reliable sources. According to the Guinness World Records, the tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940), who was 272 cm (8 ft 11 in). He received media attention in 1939 when he was measured to be the tallest man in ...
2 cm — approximate width of an adult human finger; 2.54 cm — 1 inch; 3.1 cm — 1 attoparsec (10 −18 parsecs) 3.5 cm — width of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography; 4.3 cm — minimum diameter of a golf ball [32] 7.3-7.5 cm — diameter of a baseball [33] 8.6 cm × 5.4 cm — dimensions of a typical credit card [34]
John Webber "Jerry" Turner (January 17, 1954 – August 20, 2023) was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder who played in seven full seasons and parts of three others in the Major Leagues from 1974–1983, mostly with the San Diego Padres (1974–1981; 1983). Turner threw and batted left-handed, stood 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm ...
Thus, a "3-foot" wave is roughly six feet high (in actuality a height of ~1.8 m), i.e., head-high to a 6-foot (~180 cm) person; a "2-foot" wave is roughly four feet high (height of ~1.2 m), i.e., chest-high to such a person; and a "6- to 8-foot" wave would be 2 to approaching 3 times head-high to such a person (height of ~3.5 to 5 m). As wave ...