Imperial Units!
By Inez Bethell 8a
Example of some imperial units:
Length inch, foot, yard, mile, furlong, cubit
Area acres, roods, hides, square inches
Volume pints, gallons, pecks, bushels
Weight ounces, pounds, stone, hundredweight, tons
Money pence, thruppence, shillings, florins, half crowns
Angles points of compass, degrees, radians, mils
Weather wind, temperature, earthquakes
Other speed, acceleration, power, time
Foreign units American and others similar to Imperial units
Trades printers, shoes, clothes, building, farming
Documents historical documents about units of measure
The system of imperial units or the imperial system is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced. The system came into official use across the British Empire.