It’s a game a lot of us played as children—and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineers at the University of California San ...

Since its creation in the United Kingdom almost 200 years ago, tape measures have become essential for measuring things for personal, professional, and even legal use (as long as they've been ...

Steps When Running Though you can measure your steps and calculate how many you take per mile when walking, it's more challenging to estimate the steps when running, especially considering the ...

After dropping, extending, and scrubbing the blades of over 20 different tape measures with 60-grit sandpaper ... the ⅛-inch increments are labeled as fractions along one edge of the tape.