What is the history measurement?

Answer 1

A Brief History of Measurement Systems

"Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life to every

individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and daily

concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry;

to the distribution and security of every species of property; to every transaction of

trade and commerce; to the labors of the husbandman; to the ingenuity of the

artificer; to the studies of the philosopher; to the researches of the antiquarian; to the

navigation of the mariner, and the marches of the soldier; to all the exchanges of

peace, and all the operations of war. The knowledge of them, as in established use, is

among the first elements of education, and is often learned by those who learn

nothing else, not even to read and write. This knowledge is riveted in the memory by

the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life."