Need a quick and easy way to visually discover the difference between feet and meters? Feet to Meters Converter is the way to go! Simply watch conversions appear before your eyes as you slide up and down the measurement scale! Its that easy. You will soon discover general relations between feet and meters visually. Feet to Meters Converter is a great tool for both teacher and student alike! Originally, the meter was one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. Later defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of a krypton-86 atom. In 1983, defined as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second. The foot has been used as a means of measurement since at least 2500 BC. Although the size of the foot has changed throughout history. One idea is that the foot changed according to the size of the Kings foot in England.