| Year | 1997 |
| Date | 23-May |
| Volume | 178 |
| Issue | 4,042 |
| Page | 613 |
| Category | General |
| Part | 1 |
| Title | Model Engineers & Millimetres |
| Author | Tubal Cain |
| Notes | Units and systems of measurement. The origins of 'Weights and Measures', Imperial weights and measures, units of area and length, weights, volume and capacity, international implications, the impact on science and technology, initiating a rational system, the metric system, deficiencies of the metric and Imperial systems, Fulstowe and Marshchapel, Wm. Haiwarde, Westmorland wool weights, Napier's Bones |