Cursed Units 3: The British Empire Strikes Back

Furlong? Depends on the animal. Watch the full series here:    • The Cursed Units Series   My website: https://www.joenewton.au My social media: https://bsky.app/profile/josephnewton... Background music is me improvising on a piano. More info: https://www.joenewton.au/music#piano VIDEO RECOMMENDATIONS Time zones:    • The Problem with Time & Timezones - Comput...   Oilfield units:    • Oilfield Units: a Measurement System so Cu...   Word origins:    • The curious origins of imperial and metric...   British coinage:    • Predecimal Currency: The Nightmare in Your...   ???:    • Every Time "67" Has Been Said on Numberphile   REFERENCES World maps sourced from https://vemaps.com Smoots: https://news.mit.edu/2008/smoot-tt0924 Milestones: https://spokenpast.com/articles/roman... Mile history: https://petersmagnusson.org/2009/09/1... Wine gallon: https://www.sizes.com/units/gallon_en... Roman libra: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Volume units: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscri... Slugs: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa... Unit chart 1: https://feelingmyage.co.uk/2011/10/we... Unit chart 2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Metric history: https://usma.org/a-chronology-of-the-... More pendulum details: https://blog.plover.com/physics/pendu... Metre history: https://www.nist.gov/system/files/doc... SI system standards: https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/... US survey foot 1: https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot US survey foot 2: https://amerisurv.com/2023/02/09/the-... Climate Orbiter: https://llis.nasa.gov/llis_lib/pdf/10... A BUNCH OF BRITISH THERMAL UNITS https://web.archive.org/web/201611100... https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/u... https://thelawdictionary.org/british-... https://www.constellation.com/solutio... https://www.ebsco.com/research-starte... https://www.irmenergy.com/explore-mmb... https://www.carboncollective.co/susta... https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp81...