Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement by Jenny Lacika
Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement

Jenny Lacika

Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement

Jenny Lacika

32 pages first pub 2025 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction childrens
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 When the five-foot-seven-inch Oliver Smoot and his friends at MIT decided to play a practical joke, he drew the short straw—and was selected to be the measurement device to carry it out. The task? Measuring the length of a bridge, one lying-down ...

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