[Sca-cooks] period measures

[John Kemker]

You might want to look at this:
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] period measures


> It is interesting that we still use the troy ounce and that it can be
traced
> to the average wieght of a particular type of wheat at a particular time.
Much
> as the railway guage used today can be traced to the spacing of the Roman
> chariot wheels. Or why much of the world uses a technically inferior
computer
> operating system or the qwerty keyboard.
>
>
> Stefan