 | English cookery book - 1859 - 578 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 is found to be as thirty-six inches (the yard) to 39'1393 (the pendulum) ; thus a sure means... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1860 - 540 pages
...inquire into the subject of weights and measures, that the said yard hereby declared to be the Imperial Standard Yard, when compared with a pendulum vibrating...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 enacted and declared, That... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1860 - 444 pages
...is tho same as the Imperial standard yard of Great Britain. It is determined as follows : The rod of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time, in the...of London, in a vacuum, at the level of the sea, is divided into 391393 equal parts, and 360000 of these parts are 3(5 inches, or 1 standard yard. Hence,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1860 - 152 pages
...consists of 100 links, each of them 7.92 inches. The yard is the imperial standard measure of length. A pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, at the sea.level, and at 62' Fahrenheit, is equal to 39•1303 inches : and a yard is to the length of the... | |
 | Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. - 1860 - 754 pages
...making, under the direction of the Lords of the Treasury, a new standard yard, bearing the proportion to a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London in a vacuum and at the level of the sea, as 36 inches to 39.1393 inches." The event contemplated by the last clause... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Physics - 1861 - 780 pages
...otherwise injured, it should be restored by making a new standard yard, bearing the same proportion to a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum and at the level of the sea, as 36 inches bears to 39.1303 inches, the latter bcing the length of the... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1863 - 482 pages
...=1 Furlong. 8 Furlongs =1 Mile. 69^ Miles =1 Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth. * The imperial standard yard, when compared with a pendulum, vibrating...vacuum, at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of 36 inches to 39-1393. Since the passing of this act, however, some very elaborate and scientific experiments... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - Canada - 1863 - 162 pages
...— This section provides that the yard, if lost, &c., may be restored by reference to the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, in the proportion of 36 inches to 39 inches and -fflth part of an inch. 4. — Standard brass weight... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Criminal law - 1863 - 540 pages
...thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches."* What is an inch ? A measure bearing a certain proportion to " a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London in a vacuum at the level of the sea."f What is judicial proof? That which, being permitted by law to be given in evidence, induces... | |
 | William Harris Johnston - 1865 - 478 pages
...making, under the directions of the Lords of the Treasury, a new standard yard, bearing the proportion to a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time, in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, and at the level of the sea, of 36 inches to 39-1393 inches." It is here assumed that the laws of nature... | |
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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 three hundred and ninety-three ten-thousandth Parts of an Inch... 
