"History of Measurement"
This is a collection of papers our 7th (or maybe 8th?) grade class did on
measurements. Each student was given a topic on measurements and had to
learn something about the history of the topic as well as draw a
representation of the topic (somehow). Some are quite imaginative. The
results were "ditto" copied (gotta love that alcohol-based transfer
process (sniff! ahh!)) for each student.
I've scanned these in as a way of preserving them. Since they are
20+ years old, they aren't in the best of condition. But, being they
were dittos in the first place, they weren't the best of quality to begin
with and whoever made the copies didn't take all that much care to get
the page exactly right. So I worked with what I had. In order to get
them to scan, I ended up having to tweak the image intensity qualities to
optimize for blue (since dittos were typically purple, this worked out
well). Even so, there were some pages which the scanner just couldn't do
much with, but you can make out most of the words and drawings and kinda
guess at the rest. Most of the pages are signed.
Click on each picture to get the full sized image.
Warning! These jpeg images are hugh (3400x4394 res, 24-bit
color, scanned at 400dpi) and range in size from 512k to over 1Mb in
size. The original PNM images were each 42.7Mb in size. If you really
want to play with the original images, let me know and I'll make them
available to ya.
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| 0 - cover |
1 - Table of Contents |
2 - Length |
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| 3 - Furlong |
4 - Acre and Hide |
5 - Cubit |
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| 6 - Span |
7 - Digit |
8 - Inch and Foot |
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| 9 - Pace and Mile |
10 - Rod |
11 - Fathom |
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| 12 - Hand bredth |
13 - Yard |
14 - Weight |
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| 15 - Biblical |
16 - Roman |
17 - Avoirdupois |
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| 18 - English measurements |
19 - Trey |
20 - Liquid Capacity |
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| 21 - Babylonian |
22 - Egyptian |
23 - Hebrew |
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| 24 - Greek |
25 - Roman |
26 - French |
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| 27 - English |
28 - Standard Gallon |
29 - Temperature |
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| 30 - Farenheit |
31 - Celsius |
32 - Changing to a Metric World |
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| 33 - The Metric System |
34 - Buying Milk |
35 - Inches to Centimeters |
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| 36 - Temperature |
37 - Weighing Yourself |
38 - Weighing Your Dog |
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| 39 - Miles to Kilometers |
40 - Doll Clothing |
41 - Tables |
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| 42 - English System |
43 - Metric System |
44 - English to Metric |
