Length
By: by Peter Patilla ; [illustrator, Dave Cockcroft].
Contributors: Cockcroft, David, ill.
Series: Measuring up
Publisher: New Discovery
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Mensuration -- Juvenile literature; Measurement
Description: Discusses the origins of our present-day measuring systems, how people measured lengths in the past, the different systems and how to convert from one to another, and examples of unusual lengths.
Notes: Includes index.