| Almanacs, English - 1889 - 916 pages
...MEASURE OF LENGTH. Ч 40 8 Inches Feet Yards Pole» Furlongs I Foot I Yard 1 Hod or Pole 1 Furlong I Mile !1 Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth. An inch...smallest lineal measure to which a name is given, but subdivisions are used for many purposes. Among mechanics, the inch is commonly divided into eighths.... | |
| E. S. Norman Campbell - English language - 1830 - 304 pages
...feet = 1 yard. 5^ yards — 1 Rod or Pole. 40 poles — 1 Furlong. 8 furlongs = 1 Mile. 69r'^ miles = 1 Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth. An inch is...smallest lineal measure to which a name is given, but subdivisions are used for various purposes. Mechanics divide the Inch into eighths. By Officers of... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pages
...alterations in the weights and measures. The measures now in use in England and the U. States are к follows: An inch is the smallest lineal measure to which a name is given, but subdivisions arc used for many purposes. Among mechanics, the inch is commonly divided into eighths.... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - Mathematics - 1834 - 484 pages
...Society's Standard 36-00135 Ramsden's bar 36-00249 Its copy, at Marischal College, Aberdeen 36-00244 An inch is the smallest lineal measure to which a name is given ; but subdivisions are used for many purposes. Among mechanics the inch is commonly divided into eightks.... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 608 pages
...furlongs ~ 69 1-15 miles =. oot yard rod, or pole furlong mile (ki;Tec of a great circle of the carlh. An inch is the smallest lineal measure to which a name is given, hut subdivisions are used for many purposes. Among mechanics, the inch is commonly divided into eighths.... | |
| Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1841 - 490 pages
...= 1 foot 3 feet = 1 yard U yards = 1 rod, or pole poles = 1 furlong H lurlongs = 1 mile C91, mies = 1 degree of a great circle of the earth. An inch is...smallest lineal measure to which a name is given, but subdivisions are used for many purposes. Among mechanics, the inch is commonly divided into eighths.... | |
| Alfred Crowquill - Arithmetic - 1843 - 156 pages
...MEASURE. HIS Measure respects length only, and is used in taking the distance from one place to another. An Inch is the smallest lineal measure to which a name is given ; but sub -divisions are used for many purposes. Among mechanics the inch is usually divided into eighths:... | |
| Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1846 - 944 pages
...yard. 1 rod or pole. 1 furlong. 1 mile. 1 degree of a great circle of the earth. for measuring cloth. An inch is the smallest lineal measure to which a...parts of an inch that can be required by artificers, engi neers, and scientific persons. The following particular measures of length are in general use... | |
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