 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 756 pages
...combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically identical with the mass of unit volume of water ; in other words of making the value of the density of water practically equal to unity. We are now all but unanimous in regarding this latter element of simplicity as the more important of... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 788 pages
...combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity of the name metre, while the latter combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically identical with the mass of unit volume of water ; in other words of making the value of the density of water practically equal... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 546 pages
...combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity of the name metre, while the latter combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically identical with the mass of unit volume of water ; in other words of making the value of the density of water practically equal... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 1060 pages
...combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity of the name meter, while the latter combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically identical with the mass of unit volume of water ; in other word's, of making the value of the density of water practically equal... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 542 pages
...combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity of the name metre, while the latter combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically identical with the mass of unit volume of water ; in other words of making the value of the density of water practically equal... | |
 | Joseph David Everett - Physics - 1875 - 112 pages
...combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity of the name metre, while the latter combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically...of the density of water practically equal to unity. We are now all but unanimous in regarding this latter element of simplicity as the more important of... | |
 | Spencer Fullerton Baird - Industrial arts - 1875 - 892 pages
...which has the advantage of making the unit of mass appear identical with the mass of the unit volume of water — in other words, of making the value of the density of water appear equal to unity. From these fundamental units the units of electrical and magnetic magnitudes,... | |
 | Joseph David Everett - Physics - 1875 - 112 pages
...combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity of the name metre, while the latter combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically identical with the mass of unit- volume of water — in other words, of making the value of the density of water practically equal... | |
 | Joseph David Everett - Metric system - 1879 - 236 pages
...combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity of the name metre, while the latter combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically...of the density of water practically equal to unity. We are now all but unanimous in regarding this latter element of simplicity as the more important of... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Building materials - 1883 - 402 pages
...combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity of the name metre, while the latter combination has the advantage of making the unit of mass practically identical with the mass of unit-volume of water—in other words, of making the value of the density of water practically equal to unity. We... | |
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... discussion has been carried on, the principal point discussed being the claims of the gramme, the metre, and the second, as against the gramme, the centimetre, and the second, — the former combination having an advantage as regards the simplicity... 
