 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 384 pages
...United States standard, the original, of which the state standards are copies, is a brass scale of 82 inches in length, prepared for the survey of the coast...deposited in the Office of Weights and Measures. The Rod is sometimes called Perch, or Pole. The Yard, for CLOTH MEASURE, is subdivided into Quarters and... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1855 - 272 pages
...United States standard, the original, of which the State standards are copies, is a brass scale of 82 inches in length, prepared for the survey of the coast...and deposited in the Office of Weights and Measures, at Washington. * McCul1och. The Chinese li The Russian werst The ancient .Roman mil« The Tuscan mile... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1857 - 808 pages
...gallon measure, in its case One half gallon measure. ''- <• Arranged in one box. pint half pi nt " Each with a ground glass cover. 4. A standard half...eighty-two inches in length, prepared for the survey of the roast of the United States, by Troughton of London, and deposited in the Office of Weights and Measures.... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase, Phiny Earie Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 394 pages
...United States standard, the original, of which the state standards are copies, is a brass scale of 82 inches in length, prepared for the survey of the coast...deposited in the Office of Weights and Measures. The Rod is sometimes called Perch, or Pole. The Yard, for CLOTH MEASURE, is subdivided into Quarters and... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 388 pages
...United States standard, the original, of which the state standards are copies, is a brass scale of 82 inches in length, prepared for the survey of the coast...deposited in the Office of Weights and Measures. The Rod is sometimes called Perch, or Pole. The Yard, for CLOTH MEASURE, is subdivided into Quarters and... | |
 | Arnold Guyot, P.D., LL.D. - 1858 - 656 pages
...reduced to their normal temperatures. Schumacher's tables, therefore, must be corrected accordingly. 4. The actual standard of length of the United States...scale of eightytwo inches in length, prepared for the Coast Survey of the United States, by Troughton of London, meant to be identical with the English Imperial... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - Meteorology - 1858 - 658 pages
...reduced to their normal temperatures. Schumacher's tables, therefore, nust be corrected accordingly. 4. The actual standard of length of the United States is a brass scale of eightywo inches in length, prepared for the. Coast Survey of the United States, by Troughon of London,... | |
 | Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. - 1860 - 754 pages
...Parliament, which received the royal assent July 30, 1855, the restored standard yard was legalized. The actual standard of length of the United States is a brass scale eighty-two inches in length, prepared for the survey of the coast of the United States, by Troughton... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1866 - 764 pages
...restored standard yard was legalized. The actual standard of length of the United States is a brass scale eighty-two inches in length, prepared for the survey of the coast of the United States, by Troughtoii of London, in 1813, and deposited in the Office of Weights and Measures at Washington. The... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - Matter - 1868 - 140 pages
...suspension to the centre of oscillation, was 39-13929 inches of Bird,s standard of 1760, at 62° Fahr. The actual standard of length of the United States is a brass scale of 82 inches in length, prepared for the US Coast Survey, by Troughton of London ; meant to be identical... | |
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A standard half bushel, with a ground glass cover, in its case, 1 . The actual standard of length^ of the United States, is a brass scale of eighty-two inches in length, prepared for the survey of the coast of the United States, by Troughton of London.,... 
