When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: measuring with a trundle wheel and chain

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Surveyor's wheel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor's_wheel

    The trundle wheel is composed of a wheel, a handle which is attached to the axle allowing the trundle wheel to be held easily, and a clicking device which is triggered once per revolution of the wheel. Trundle wheels are not as accurate as other methods of measuring distance but are a good way to get a rough estimation of a fairly long distance ...

  3. Chain (unit) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(unit)

    The chain is still used in agriculture: measuring wheels with a circumference of 0.1 chain (diameter ≈ 2.1 ft or 64 cm) are still readily available in Canada and the United States. For a rectangular tract, multiplying the number of turns of a chain wheel for each of two adjacent sides and dividing by 1,000 gives the area in acres.

  4. Gunter's chain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter's_chain

    Gunter's chain (also known as Gunter's measurement) is a distance-measuring device used for surveying. It was designed and introduced in 1620 by English clergyman and mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1626). It enabled plots of land to be accurately surveyed and plotted, for legal and commercial purposes.

  5. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)

    The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

  6. Link (unit) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_(unit)

    The last replacement imperial artifact was made in bronze in 1845, and the most accurate measurement ever made of its length (much later) was 0.914 398 416 meters. In the U.S., the Mendenhall Order of 1893 tied the length of the U.S. yard to the meter, with the equivalence 39.37 inches = 1 meter, or approximately 0.914 401 828 803 658 meters ...

  7. Trundle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trundle

    Trundle bed, a bed that is stored under another bed; Trundle wheel, a measuring device based on the circumference of a wheel; Trundle, the Troll King, a playable champion character in the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends

  8. Sprocket - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprocket

    16 tooth sprocket. Do = Sprocket diameter. Dp = Pitch diameter A sprocket and roller chain. A sprocket, [1] sprocket-wheel [2] or chainwheel is a profiled wheel with teeth that mesh with a chain, rack or other perforated or indented material. [3] [4] The name 'sprocket' applies generally to any wheel upon which radial projections engage a chain ...

  9. Opisometer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisometer

    line length = wheel circumference × teeth counted/teeth on wheel. In more sophisticated models, sometimes called a chartometer, the wheel is connected via gearing to a rotary dial from which the line length can be directly read. [1] The instrument is most commonly used to measure the lengths of roads, rivers and other line features on maps ...