| Metric system - 1877 - 154 pages
...The grand aim of the metrological reform is comprised in the three words, uniformity, permanency, and universality; one standard to be the same for all...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. Of the importance of this object, said John Qnincy Adams, " Uniformity of weights and measures, permanent... | |
| Boston (Mass.). School Committee, School Committee of the City of Boston - Boston (Mass.) - 1878 - 498 pages
...The grand aim of the metrological reform is comprised in the three words, uniformity, permanency and universality; one standard to be the same for all...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. Of the importance of this object, said John Quincy Adams, " Uniformity of weights and measures, permanent... | |
| Charles Hubbard Judd - Social psychology - 1926 - 362 pages
...there will be only one standard unit of long measure, and its uniformity will be that of identity. When weights and measures present themselves to the...to possess. The power of the legislator is limited by*the extent of his territories, and the numbers of, his people. His principle of universality, therefore,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1948 - 80 pages
...this report to Congress he (afterward the sixth President of the United States) says: The legislators' "purposes are uniformity, permanency, universality...and all purposes and to continue the same forever." And again he says : "uniformity of weights and measures, permanent universal uniformity adapted to... | |
| James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1917 - 588 pages
...ability. The grand aim of the metrological reform is comprised in three words, uniformity, permanency and universality; one standard to be the same for all...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. ... A universal system of metrology should possess the following four characters: 1. Its base-unit... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - Radiation - 1960 - 1262 pages
...activities in this area led him to state the purposes of the legislator in fixing standards ( 1 ) : His purposes are uniformity, permanency, universality;...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. Here, he was speaking of weights and measures which might admit to such an ideal approach. By putting... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - Radiation - 1960 - 1378 pages
...ixing standards (1) : s purposes are uniformity, permanency, universality ; one standard to be ami! for all persons and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. e, he was speaking of weights and measures which might admit ;uch an ideal approach. By putting the... | |
| James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1917 - 602 pages
...ability. The grand aim of the metrological reform is comprised in three words, uniformity, permanency and universality; one standard to be the same for all...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. ... A universal system of metrology should possess the following four characters: 1. Its base-unit... | |
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