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2. Brannock Device - Wikipedia

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   Brannock Device. 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 ...

3. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The foot (standard symbol: ft) [1][2] is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly used to represent the foot. [3] In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet. Since an international agreement in 1959 ...

5. Charles F. Brannock - Wikipedia

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   Charles F. Brannock (May 16, 1903 – November 22, 1992) was the inventor and manufacturer of the Brannock Device for measuring overall length, width, and heel-to-ball length of the foot. Biography. The son of a shoe industry entrepreneur, Brannock attended Syracuse University, New York, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

6. Fotmal - Wikipedia

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   The fotmal ( Old English: fotmael, lit. " foot -measure"; Latin: fotmal ), also known as the foot ( pes ), formel, fontinel, and fotmell, was an English unit of variable weight particularly used in measuring production, sales, and duties of lead. [ 1] Under the c. 1300 Assize of Weights and Measures, it was equal to 70 Merchants' pounds and ...

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8. List of human-based units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   Fathom - the distance between the fingertips of a human's outstretched arms. Finger. Fistmele - the measure of a clenched hand with the thumb extended. Gradus - Ancient Roman step. Hand - breadth of a human hand. Klafter - German measure of outstretched hands. League - the distance a person can walk in an hour (by one definition)

9. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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   metric (SI) units. 4.2333 mm. The pica is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to approximately 1⁄6 of an inch, or from 1⁄68 to 1⁄73 of a foot. One pica is further divided into 12 points. In printing, three pica measures are used: The French pica of 12 Didot points (also called cicero) generally is: 12 × 0.376 = 4.512 mm (0.1776 in).