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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS

UNITS OF WEIGHT AND MEASURE (UNITED STATES CUSTOMARY AND METRIC) ^ DEFINITIONS AND TABLES OF EQUIVALENTS

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION M121 (Superseding Circular C47)

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE DANIEL C. ROPER, Secretary NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS LYMAN J. BRIGGS, Director

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION M121

UNITS OF WEIGHT AND MEASURE (U. S. CUSTOMARY AND METRIC) DEFINITIONS AND TABLES OF EQUIVALENTS

Issued January 1936

[Superseding Bureau of Standards Circular C47]

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 1936

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C, Price 15 cents

CONTENTS Page I. Introduction 1 II. Fundamental equivalents 2 III. Definitions of units 3 1. Length 3 2. Area 3 3. 4 4. Capacity 4 5. Mass 5 IV. Standards of measurement 5 V. Spelling and abbreviation of units 6 1. List of the most common units of weight and measure and their abbreviations. 7 VI. Tables of interrelation of units of measurement 8 1. Length 8 2. Area 8 3. Volume 8 4. Capacity— Liquid measure 8 5. Capacity—Dry measure 10 6. Mass—Less than pounds and kilograms 10 7. Mass—Greater than avoirdupois ounces 10

VII. Comparison of metric and customary units from 1 to 9 . 12 1. Length 12 2. Area 12 3. Volume 12 4. Capacity—Liquid measure 13 5. Capacitv—Drv measure 13 6. Mass__* 13 7. Comparison of the various and pounds in use in the United States (from 1 to 9 units) 14 VIII. Special tables 15 Length: and millimeters—equivalents of decimal and binary fractions of an , in millimeters, from }