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Laughable is the fact that the gauge railways in Britain are almost exactly the same as the distance between the wheels of a Roman chariot. And who would not be amused at the recollection that the basis of much modern town planning is the acre, an area plowable in one day by a team of two oxen? Quoted in A Random Walk in Science, edited by R. L. Weber, Institute of Physics, London