 | William Nathaniel Griffin - Dynamics, Rigid - 1847 - 130 pages
...Geo. IV. defines the yard to contain 36 such parts, of which parts there are 30.1393 in the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London in vacuo at the level of the sea at temperature 62 F. The commissioners, however, appointed to consider... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1880 - 428 pages
...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...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 hundred and... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1849 - 142 pages
...temperature of 62° Fahrenheit's thermometer. The standard yard, when compared with the length of the rod of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, is found to be in the ratio of 36 inches to 39' 1393. Hence, if the standard yard be lost or destroyed,... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Measurement - 1850 - 144 pages
...temperature of 62° Fahrenheit's thermometer. The standard yard, when compared with the length of the rod of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, is found to be in the ratio of 36 inches to 39*1393. Hence, if the standard yard be lost or destroyed,... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 384 pages
...English standard unit of Long Measure is the yard, which is equivalent to |f fi§s of *he length of a "pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the...latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea."b The United States standard, the original, of which the state standards are copies, is a brass... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1851 - 314 pages
...measure of length shall bе the imperial standard yard of 36 inches, when compared with the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, at the level of the sea, being in the proportion of 36 to 39-1393 inches. The standard yard, formerly preserved at the House... | |
 | James Gray - Arithmetic - 1854 - 120 pages
...all lineal measures are taken; it contains 36 inches, each inch Ыми.ц the „ 9. ,' ¡75 part of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, Fah. thermometer being at 62° and the barometer at 30 inches. Jtofaf Ib с). st. td. wy. et 7 Pounds... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1855 - 272 pages
...English standard unit of Long Measure is the yard, which is equivalent to | $fjj§f of the length of a "pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the...of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea."* The United States standard, the original, of which the State standards are copies, is a brass scale... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1856 - 556 pages
...weights and measures, that the said yard hereby declared to be the Imperial Standard Yard, when compared with a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in...latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of 36 to 39. inches, and 1393 ten thousandths part of an inch : Be it therefore... | |
 | Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse - Calendar - 1856 - 232 pages
...yards. 3. The yard, if lost, defaced, or otherwise injured, may be restored by comparing it with the pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time, in the latitude of London, in a vacuum on the level of the sea, the yard being in the proportion of 36 inches to 39-1393 of the pendulum.... | |
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Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea... 
