All Things Transported: Issue 01 LENGTH

ISSUE 01 Length 📏 explores the awkward teens of the measuring units we use today, and the fine tuning done over thousands of years, “perfected" (depending on how you define perfect)  into the measuring standards of today, and how we misuse them.

Consider that we’ve had the word thermometre a century and a half earlier than the invention of the metre. Even if this inaugural issue is all about length, meter ( metron in Greek – μέτρον) first meant “to measure”, and only after became a dimension.

Shock yourself at the incredibly recent imprecision of things we consider to be done at the highest calibre since forever, such as flight and marathon record setting. And look up at the moon and know that you are at one thumb, or two clicks away to finding out how far it is from you.