origin of measurement.?

Answer 1

People always needed to compare objects during a discourse by saying it is very, very big, or it was that small. For that purpose a foot served as standard. It was not very precise way to measure but this term prevailed in our language. So the origin of measurement can conceivably be over 10 or may by 100 thousand of years. The question is standardization.

Standardization, however is a later invention and was a requirement for emerging commerce and collaborative work on large projects. Masonry works in building the pyramids in Egypt and especially in the Andes of South America shown an amazing precision. That evidence suggests early standardization.

Length, weight and angular measurements probably were the earliest. Main motivations were construction, commerce and astronomy.

Answer 2

Laws to regulate measurement were originally developed to prevent fraud. However, units of measurement are now generally defined on a scientific basis, and are established by international treaties. In the United States, commercial measurements are regulated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, a division of the United States Department of Commerce.

The history of measurements is a topic within the history of science and technology. The metre (us: meter) was standardized as the unit for length after the French revolution, and has since been adopted throughout most of the world. The United States and the UK are in the process of converting to the SI system. This process is known as metrication.

Answer 3

Before complex measurements arose, people measured things using actual "hands" and "feet." They would know how many strides they had to take to get from their caves to the nearest fruit tree, for example. Or they could measure the height of their wolf-dog using their hands. The need to standardize measurement arose from confusion from communicating how long a foot was or how wide a hand was.

Answer 4

I can't remember at the moment, but there's a great 1 hour "documentary" hosted by Terry Jones (from Monty Python) called "The Story of 1" that pretty much goes through the history of math. It answers this question and a lot of other similar ones.

Answer 5

The need to measure things goes back to pre-historic times. That's why the foot is basically the length of an adult male foot.

Answer 6

It depends, what kind? You have the Americanized thing and then the metric system.
I guess when the time came (for building houses, making tools, etc) we decided we needed a way to determine how big something needs to be.

Answer 7

Caveman times.

Answer 8

It must have been before Noah's day, since God told Noah exactly how many cubits to build the ark.

Answer 9

when socrates wanted his statue to be bigger than zues'

no joke