Who invented the meter stick?

Answer 1

To measure the length, height, or width of something that has physical dimensions. Frequently the meter stick has a length of 1m.

Gabriel Mouton, the vicar of St. Paul's Church in Lyon, France, is considered by many as the "founding father" of the metric system. It was originally made of titanium.

Answer 2

According to the first definition adopted in France in 1791, the meter was 0.0000001 quarter of the length of the Paris meridian. The size of a meter was defined on the basis of geodetic and astronomical measurements J.Delambre и P. Méchain. French master Lenoir was managed J.Borda (1799)was prepared the first standard meter as a measure of length limit - platinum stick width of about 25 mm, a thickness of about 4 mm, the distance between the ends, the unit of length equal to the highest. He got the name "meter archive" or "archival meter" (at the place of storage). However, as it turned out meter could not be exactly reproduced again because of the lack of accurate data about the figure of the Earth and of significant errors of geodetic measurements.The present length of the meter is made in accordance with the resolution of the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures held in October 1983 in Paris (France) and is defined as the distance traveled by light in vacuum during a 1:299 792 458 stake seconds.

Answer 3

The meter stick was invented by John Wilkins in the 17th century. It was later standardized as the metric system by the French Academy of Sciences in the 18th century.

Answer 4

The French