 | Robert Brunton - Machinery, Kinematics of - 1830 - 260 pages
...particularly when the data used has been taken from them. STANDARD YARD. The Standard 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, is in the proportion as 36 to 39 inches, and 13P3 tenthousandth parts of an inch.... | |
 | John Bennett (Engineer) - 1833 - 488 pages
...to inquire into the subject of weights and measures, that the said standard 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, is in the proportion of thirty-six inches to thirty-nine inches, and one thousand... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mathematics - 1834 - 484 pages
...69TV Miles = 1 Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth. The imperial standard 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, is in the proportion of 36 inches to 39-1393. Since the passing of this act, however,... | |
 | John O'Donoghue - Justices of the peace - 1835 - 270 pages
.... 4840 Yard, if lost, to be restored by the following proportion, 36 : 39,1393, being the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea. The standard pound shall be, the standard brass weight of one pound troy weight,... | |
 | Great Britain - Law - 1836 - 592 pages
...hundred and forty such square yards, being one hundred and sixty square perches, poles, or rods. dulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a No. XVIII. vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of thirty-six inches to 5 Geo. IV.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1840 - 640 pages
...thermometer, is the imperial standard yard." Sec. 3. " the imperial standard 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, is in the proportion of 36 inches to 39 inches and one thousand three hundred and... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 598 pages
...the latter has been adopted in the imperial standard yard of Great Britain, which, when compared with a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of 36 inches to 39.1393 inches. Since the passing of this act,... | |
 | Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 710 pages
...superficial, or solid, shall be derived and computed ; and that the Imperial standard 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, is in the proportion of 36 incites to 3SU383 indies. 311 T 4 Barley corns. 3 ™... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1880 - 436 pages
...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... | |
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Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea... 
