18 notes:
- The middle of a wheel is called the hub
- In the old days their calendar was only 360 degrees because the stars circled around polaris 1 degree each day
- Measurement was commonly in use back then, for cooking, carpentry, medicine and more
- James Anderson was a successful blacksmith
- One shilling = 12 pennies
- The continental army relied on tradespeople, because they didn't have the resources, tradespeople brought things from different areas which might have better things
- The law in Virginia stated that any man over sixteen had to own a cartridge box, bayonet, gun, and other physical defensive and battle items
- The year after the french started using the metric unit system the US started disliking them
- 4800 inches of wood is needed to complete 100 musket ball crates
- Slaves new math also, they also had business accounts and home accounts to keep track of
- Soldiers carried "mess kits" to carry and prepare their food
- The old time bakers, to tell if an oven was hot enough, used experience to stick their hand in their oven and judge from then
- Musket balls were made of lead
- An abycuss in an ancient type of calculators
- In 1699, Williamsburg was founded and the properties to buy were made
- 2r = diameter
- In the 1800 century people learned math from books, tutors & teachers, experience, or from being an apprentice of any skill
- An artificer makes produces goods for the army
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