WASHINGTON – Change is afoot for the official measuring stick used to size up big places in America. The reason? There are actually two definitions of the 12-inch measurement known as a foot. Some ...
The U.S. is finally adopting the international foot. Measurements are updated pretty regularly, considering they're so static otherwise. The change is unfathomably minuscule to anyone but big-picture ...
LIVERPOOL, N.Y.—Many have tried, but no one has ever come up with a more elegantly simple way to measure the human foot than Charles Brannock, inventor of that ubiquitous metal gadget found in shoe ...