Measure: Measure What?
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How and why do we measure?
Measuring is way of allowing us to make comparisons and to organize our world. But it has taken us a long time to agree on how to measure things. Find out the history or measurement and more about the U.S. Customary standards.
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Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by the 360 Immersive, the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Measure: Measure What?
Special | 6m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Measuring is way of allowing us to make comparisons and to organize our world. But it has taken us a long time to agree on how to measure things. Find out the history or measurement and more about the U.S. Customary standards.
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Science Trek is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by the 360 Immersive, the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.