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A metre-stick, metrestick (or meter-stick and meterstick as alternative spellings); [1] or yardstick [2] is either a straightedge or foldable ruler used to measure length, and is especially common in the construction industry. They are often made of wood or plastic, and often have metal or plastic joints so that they can be folded together.
The Biltmore stick is so named because it was developed at the Biltmore Estate, one of the first places in the United States where forestry was applied as a science. Gifford Pinchot , the future first chief of the United States Forest Service, and then Carl A. Schenck were hired in the 1890s to restore 125,000 acres (510 km 2 ) of land around ...
Efforts to standardise measurements can be traced back at least as far as the 10th century Saxon king Edgar in England. [8]: 73 These efforts continued in the United Kingdom culminating in the Imperial system of measurement established by the Weights and Measures Act 1824. British exploration and colonisation and trade spread these standard but ...
A variety of rulers A carpenter's rule Retractable flexible rule or tape measure A closeup of a steel ruler A ruler in combination with a letter scale. A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge or metre/meter stick, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a length is read from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device. [1]
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A similar scene with measuring rod and coiled rope is shown on the top part of the diorite stele above the Code of Hammurabi in the Louvre, Paris, dating to ca. 1700 BC. [31] The "measuring rod" or tally stick is common in the iconography of Greek Goddess Nemesis. [32]
The traditional small arc to the heel edge of the hockey stick had the effect of setting the stick head back slightly. This aspect of stick design (of which the AREC hockey stick was an extreme example) was first explored just prior to the Men's Hockey World Cup of 1986 and resulted in the production of hockey sticks with a stick head ...
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