Swedish units of measurement

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  English unit

  English units refers to the historical units of measurement in medieval England, which evolved as a combination of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman systems of units. They were redefined in England in 1824 by a Weights and Measures Act, which retained many but not all of the unit names with slightly...
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  Imperial unit system

  Imperial units or the imperial system is a system of units, first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, later refined (until 1959) and reduced. The system came into official use across the British Empire. By the late 20th century all nations of the former empire had officially...

• Obsolete Tatar units of measurement

  A native system of weights and measures was used by Tatars until 1924, but became obsolete when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system. The Tatar system shares many units with the Russian system (e.g. sajın and disätinä), which is close to the English (The Russian system existed since ancient...

• Norwegian units of measurement

  As in the case of the Danes the Norwegians' earliest standards of measure can be derived from their ship burials. The 60 ft long Kvalsund boat was built ca. 700 AD and differs from the Danish boats less than it does from the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune ships which all date from ca. 800 AD. Thwarts...

• Mesures usuelles

  Mesures usuelles (French for customary measurements) were a system of measurement introduced to act as compromise between the metric system and traditional measurements. The French First Republic established the metric system, but was unable to educate all of its citizens into accepting and...

• German units of measurement

  Germany had an indigenous system of German units of measurement prior to its adoption of the international metric system. These units are now mainly of historical interest. Before the introduction of the metric system in German, almost every town had its own definitions of the units shown below,...

• Obsolete Russian units of measurement

  A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but it was abandoned in 1924 when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system. The Tatar system is very similar to the Russian one, but some names are different. The system existed since ancient Rus...

• Danish units of measurement

  The Danes started with a system of units based on a Greek pous ("foot") of 308.4 mm (1.012 ft) which they picked up through trade in the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age. Some early standards of measure can be recovered from measured drawings made of the 52.5-foot long Hjortspring boat which though...