Measurement is a story that is as old as mankind. Packed with cutting edge science, amusing anecdotes from history and jaw-dropping examples from the modern world, this is our journey from counting on our knuckles to the exploration of outer space.With experiments both modern and ancient, the series will explain how we developed the seven international units of measurement: time, length, mass, brightness, current temperature and moles (the measurement of atoms). How have they shaped the course of our history, science and civilisation?