 | Industrial arts - 1840 - 644 pages
...1760' are engraved, and 62 degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer, is the imperial standard y»rd." Sec. 3. " the imperial standard yard, when compared with a pendulum...vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of 36 inches to 39 inches and one thousand three hundred and ninety-three tenthousandth part of an inch... | |
 | Samuel Higgs Gael - Law - 1840 - 364 pages
...the purpose of affording means of restoring the standard measures, the relation between the yard and a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, at the level of the sea, was ascertained ; and for restoring weights, relation was made to a cubic inch of distilled water,... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 598 pages
...latitude. Hence, the latter has been adopted in the imperial standard yard of Great Britain, which, when compared with a pendulum vibrating seconds of...vacuum, at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of 36 inches to 39.1393 inches. Since the passing of this act, however, some very elaborate and scientific... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1841 - 490 pages
...which is to be that proportion which the yard bears to the length of a pendulum, vibrating seconds of time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea ; which U found to be as thirty-six inches (the yard) to 3!i. 1393 (the pendulum); thus a sure means... | |
 | 1843 - 594 pages
...hereby declar' ed to be the imperial standard yard, when compared with a 1 pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, in a ' vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of thirty' six inches to thirty-nine inches, and one thousand three hun' dred and ninety-three ten-thousandth... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 594 pages
...standard yard, when compared with a ' pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, in a 1 vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of thirty' six inches to thirty-nine inches, and one thousand three hun' dred and ninety-three ten-thousandth... | |
 | Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 710 pages
...whatsoever, whether the sanie be linoal, superficial, or solid, shall be derived and computed ; and that the Imperial standard yard, when compared with a pendulum...vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of 36 incites to 3SU383 indies. 311 T 4 Barley corns. 3 ™ 1 Inch. 36 „_ 12 1 Foot. 108 36 3 I Yard.... | |
 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1845 - 1018 pages
...standard yard, when comw *ith a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of ™^on, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of thirtyn inches to thirty-nine inches, and one thousand three hundred and fly-three ten thousandth parts... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1880 - 436 pages
...of Weights and Measures, that the said Yard hereby declared to be the Imperial Standard Yard, wheu compared with a Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacunm at the Level of the Sea is in the proportion of Thirty-Six Inches to Thirty-Nine Inches and... | |
 | Frederic A. Adams - Arithmetic - 1846 - 230 pages
...destroyed, may be restored, by making it fft'§§5£ °f tne length of a pendulum, that vibrates seconds in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, at the level of the sea. If all these conditions are fulfilled, a pendulum that vibrates seconds must have an absolutely invariable... | |
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Yard when compared with a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time, in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea... 
