MEASUREMENTS

-Mr. S Vinothkumar

The Pharaohs' surveyors used measurement based on body parts [a palm was the width of the hand,a cubit the measurement from elbow to finger tips] to measure land and building earlier in Egypt history. US customary units are a system of measurement commonly used in the US. Many US units are virtually identical to their imperial counterparts, but the US customary system developed from English units used in the British empire before the system of imperial units was standardized in 1824. The US system of units is similar to British imperial system. both system derive from the evolution of local units themselves mostly trace back to roman and anglo-saxon units.

Today these units are defined in terms of SI units. The international system of units(SI) has been an outstanding success. Since its introduction in 1960, it meets well the needs of science and commerce. By relating all our measurement to this shared set of standard units, such as the metre, gram and second. it is possible  to trade and communicate throughout the world without misunderstanding. India is following the SI system, for the past 5 decades, but still in many local stores uses inches to sell there products though the products are manufactured according to SI system.

This shows that the Indians are following the traditional methods of Egyptians. even, after the modern measurement systems.

                                                   -Mr. S Vinothkumar, Professor