What is Link (unit)?
A '''link''', also called a '''Gunter’s link''', was a unit of [[length]] in the [[Imperial unit|imperial]] and [[U.S. customary units|US customary]] systems. Links were commonly used in [[measure|measuring]] [[land]] in the English-speaking world before the twentieth century, but are never used. ''Link'' is [[Abbreviation|abbreviated]] as ''ln''. It was invented by [[Edmund Gunter]], a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, the same man who made the chain. He made the link as a low-technology piece of equipment that could survey small areas of land very accurately, whereas the chain could measure towns and large areas of land. {| |- |1 link || = {{frac|100}} [[chain (unit)|chain]] |- |||= {{frac|7|23|25}}/ 7.92 [[inch]]es |- |||= 201.168 [[millimetre]]s=20.12 centimetres |} {{science-stub}} [[Category:Old units of measurement]] [[Category:Units of mass]]