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Shaku (Japanese: 尺) or Japanese foot [1] [2] is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese chi, originally based upon the distance measured by a human hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger [3] [a] (compare span). Traditionally, the length varied by location or use, but it is now standardized as 10/ ...
The chi was originally a span taken from the end of the thumb to the tip of an outstretched middle finger, but which gradually increased in length to about 1 ⁄ 3 metre (33 cm), just a few centimetres longer than the size of a foot. [citation needed] As in China and Korea, Japan employed different shaku for different purposes.
Two foot: 610 mm (2 ft) Two foot three inch: 686 mm (2 ft 3 in) 750 mm: 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Bosnian gauge: 760 mm (2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in) Two foot six inch: 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) Swedish three foot: 891 mm (2 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 32 in) 900 mm: 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) Three foot: 914 mm (3 ft) Italian metre: 950 mm (3 ft 1 + 13 ⁄ 32 in ...
By size Minimum Fifteen inch ... Two foot six inch: 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) ... Japan: Chikuhō Electric Railroad Line: 16 km 1,435 mm (4 ft ...
Origine: from 1 ft 8 in preußische Zoll = 523,2 mm. [22] 533 mm: 21 in: England: Pleasure Beach Express: 550 mm 21 + 21 ⁄ 32 in: Denmark Mønsted Kalkgruber, in a former limestone quarry, railway is preserved. Narrow-gauge railways in Europe Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark. Germany: Mine railways in Mayen: 557 mm: 21 + 15 ⁄ 16 in ...
ounce (avoirdupois) per cubic foot oz/ft 3: ≡ oz/ft 3: ≈ 1.001 153 961 kg/m 3: ounce (avoirdupois) per cubic inch oz/in 3: ≡ oz/in 3: ≈ 1.729 994 044 × 10 3 kg/m 3: ounce (avoirdupois) per gallon (imperial) oz/gal ≡ oz/gal ≈ 6.236 023 291 kg/m 3: ounce (avoirdupois) per gallon (US fluid) oz/gal ≡ oz/gal ≈ 7.489 151 707 kg/m 3 ...
The first railway was actually built to standard gauge (the Semarang–Solo–Yogyakarta corridor), but later lines were built to cape-gauge size owing to economic feasibility. The remainder of standard gauge lines were regauged by Japanese army during World War II to 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm ) gauge, with parts using standard gauge sleepers.
The recent formula used by the Brannock device assumes a foot length of 2 barleycorns less than the length of the last; thus, men's size 1 is equivalent to a last's length of 8 + 1 ⁄ 3 in (21.17 cm) and foot's length of 7 + 2 ⁄ 3 in (19.47 cm), and children's size 1 is equivalent to 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (10.8 cm) last's length and 3 + 7 ⁄ 12 in ...