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Links to other sites about Imperial weights
and measures
There are lots of sites on the web about this subject - some better than
others! The following are some that I've found useful:
- A legal opinion of the
flawed attempt to impose metrication upon the English
- The British Weights and Measures Association - a good site to find examples of
metrication madness.
Coins and weights (and indeed coin-weights!) may be had from many dealers, such as:
If you are interested in the history of scales and weights, consider joining
the International Society of Antique Scale Collectors:
My collaborator on the names
on weights page, Norman Biggs, has a home-page at
http://www.maths.lse.ac.uk/Personal/norman/
and details of his excellent books on collecting weights can be found at
http://www.maths.lse.ac.uk/Personal/norman/Weighing.htm
Other links you may find interesting:
- Nothing to do with weights & measures, this is another of my pages -
full of pictures of
railwayana.
- Another interesting page, with details of
English pressed glass
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