Snip
From: Michael Blair
>> In America, this is a very important length.  It was the distance
>> between Benjamin Franklin’s wrist and his elbow,
>
>From: Ed Minch
>This is utter nonsense.  16 inches from elbow to wrist?  I'm taller
>than Ben, and that measurement on me is 11 inches.  At 16 inches,
>his knuckles would have been dragging on the ground.
Unsnip

Could it be that Ben’s body was only 16” in length in compensation for his legs
and arms being 5” over the average human length?

or it might be that Ed was stretching all of our legs. 



Dave N.
aka Old Sneelock