List of obsolete units of measurement

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This is a list of obsolete units of measurement, organized by type. These units of measurement are typically no longer used, though some may be in limited use in various regions.

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Area

An overview of farm-derived units of measurement. Several of these are obsolete: the oxgang, the virgate, and the carucate. Anthropic Farm Units.png
An overview of farm-derived units of measurement. Several of these are obsolete: the oxgang, the virgate, and the carucate.

Energy, etc.

Length

Luminosity

A Hefner lamp (German: Hefnerkerze) Hefnerlampe.png
A Hefner lamp (German: Hefnerkerze)

Mass or weight

Temperature

Volume (dry or liquid)

Glass milk bottles from 1950s Quebec. From largest to smallest, they are a pinte (quart), a chopine (pint), and a demiard (half-pint). The latter was used for cream. Bouteilles de lait en verre (Quebec).jpg
Glass milk bottles from 1950s Quebec. From largest to smallest, they are a pinte (quart), a chopine (pint), and a demiard (half-pint). The latter was used for cream.

Other

See also

By geography

References

  1. 1 2 Herlihy, David (2009). Medieval Households. Harvard University Press. p. 69. ISBN   9780674038608.
  2. ↑ Lessa or Lecha Unit Converter
  3. 1 2 Gilbert, E.W.; Beckinsale, R.P. (1944). Spain & Portugal: Spain. Its Geographical handbook series. Naval Intelligence Division.
  4. ↑ Hoong, Tho Lai; Yi, Tho Mun (2008). Interactive Science For Inquiring Minds Volume A. Panpac Education Pte Ltd. p. 33. ISBN   978-9812716187.
  5. ↑ Kisch, Bruno (1965). Scales and Weights. Original from the University of California: Yale University Press. p. 237.
  6. ↑ William Parry, Louis Albert Fischer,State and National Laws Concerning the Weights and Measures of the United StatesUnited States National Bureau of Standards, 1912 p. 414
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Cardarelli, François (2003). Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures. Their SI Equivalences and Origins . London: Springer. p.  17. ISBN   978-1-4471-1122-1.
  8. ↑ Published anonymously as "Scala graduum Caloris. Calorum Descriptiones & signa." in Philosophical Transactions. 1701. pp. 824–829.
  9. ↑ Nichols, Joannes, ed. (1782). Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia. Vol. 4. pp. 403–407.
  10. ↑ Silverman, Mark P. (2002), A Universe of Atoms, Springer, p. 49, ISBN   9780387954370
  11. ↑ Trudel, Marcel, Introduction to New France, p. 222
  12. ↑ sizes.com lists figures for bottles in Bolivia from 460 ml to 1 liter.
  13. ↑ McCusker, John (2005). Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World. Routledge. p. 63. ISBN   1134703406.
  14. 1 2 3 Pelton, Robert W.; Pelton, W. Pelton (2004). Baking Recipes of Our Founding Fathers. Infinity Publishing. pp. 263–264. ISBN   0741419440.

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