Egypt The distance from the elbow to the extended fingertip

Egypt The subdivisions of Cubit supposed to be a finger's breadth

Babylonians The earliest known unit of weight

Greeks The basic unit of length

Greeks The equivalent to twenty four fingers

Greeks The basic unit of weight

Greeks The basic unit of liquid measure

China The basic unit of weight

China The basic unit of length

Roman The medieval unit of weight

Roman The unit of measure for distance with varying number of feet and yards.

Roman The basic unit of Liquid

Roman The basic unit of dry measure similar to the modern English quart

Great Britain Length of 3 barley corn

Great Britain Length equivalent to 12 inches

Great Britain The standard unit of length equal to 3 feet

Great Britain Equivalent to 5.5 yards

Great Britain 4 rods wide by 40 rods long

Great Britain A troy weight

Great Britain Used for goods that had to be weighed

Great Britain A multiple of the English pound

Devised in 1714 by a Swedish astronomer

a German physicist

Loard Kelvin