 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1898 - 332 pages
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one tneter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1898 - 424 pages
...accurate copies of which are furnished the governments of all civilized countries. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 113. The principal... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1898 - 424 pages
...accurate copies of which are furnished the governments of all civilized countries. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 113. The principal... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 424 pages
...accurate copies of which are furnished the governments of all civilized countries. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 113. The principal... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1899 - 456 pages
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long. In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | Joseph Henry Dunbar - Arithmetic - 1902 - 404 pages
...countries of Continental Europe. Its basis is the Meter, which equals 39.37 inches and was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. The use of this system was legalized in the United States in 1866. It is employed by writers... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1903 - 398 pages
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1907 - 364 pages
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | Frederick Russell Gorton - Physics - 1911 - 540 pages
...and measures. By this act the yard is denned as ff Jf of a meter. 2 The meter was originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole. Accurate copies of the meter and other metric units are kept in the US Bureau of Standards... | |
 | William Albert Noyes - Chemistry - 1918 - 636 pages
...WEIGHT, VOLUME, TEMPERATURE, TIME AND ENERGY. Unit of Length. Meter. The meter was originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole of the earth, measured on the surface. The measurements by means of which the first meter was prepared... | |
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When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. 
