20 Different Types of Measuring Tools Home Stratosphere
Try to step back in time and imagine a world without measurement tools. People in ancient times used the different parts of their bodies to size things up. An inch was the width of a man''s thumb, a hand was literally meant five fingers across, a span was the length of an outstretched arm, and the yard in the 12th century was the distance from King Henry I''s nose to the thumb of his