 | Henry Rutter (of Mitcham.) - 1866 - 152 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 inches to 39 inches and 1393 ten-thousandth parts of an inch." From which it may be deduced that... | |
 | Education - 1866 - 446 pages
...lost or destroyed, it should be restored by making " 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 is to 39,1393 inches." In 1834, the brass rod spoken of was... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Physics - 1866 - 758 pages
...injured, it should be restored by making a new standard yard, bearing the same proportion to a peudulum 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 39.1393 inches, the latter being the length of the... | |
 | John Attfield - Chemistry - 1867 - 478 pages
...line = i inch. 1 inch = ai).*.)93 seconds-pendulum. 12 „ =1 foot. 36 „ = 3 „ =1 yard. Length of pendulum vibrating seconds of mean") time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum >• 39-1393 inches. at the level of the sea J RELATION Or MEASURES TO WEIGHTS. ; 1 Minim is the measure... | |
 | Peter Squire - 1867 - 358 pages
...36 „ =3 feet = 1 yard. Length of pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the i 09.1 393 mches latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea j BELATION OF MEASUBES TO WEIGHTS. 1 Minim 0-91 grain of water. 1 Fluid Drachm weighs 54-68 „ 1 Fluid... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 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, as 36 inches 1039-1393 inches." The labour of reconstruction in accordance... | |
 | Anthony Todd Thomson - 1868 - 284 pages
...Inches 86 Inches MEASURES OF LENGTH, i inch. 89.шs seconds pendulum. Ifoot. S leet lyard. Length of pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time \ in the latitude of London, in a vacunm at the f 39-1393 Incheslevel of the sea l RELATION OF MEASURES TO WEIGHTS. 1 Minim ia the meœsure... | |
 | John Groesbeck - Business mathematics - 1869 - 372 pages
...STANDARD OF LENGTH. 229. The standard unit of length is the yard, and is determined as follows: — A pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum and at the level of the sea, is divided into 391 ,393 equal parts. 360,000 of these parts are equivalent... | |
 | A. G. B. - Pharmacopoeias - 1869 - 84 pages
...line --- & inch 1 inch = ^gTTjroTT seconds pendulum 12 „ =1 foot 88 „ = 8 „ =1 yard Length of Pendulum vibrating seconds of\ mean time in the latitude of London, in a 1 89-1898 inches vacuum at the level of the sea . . * j BELATION OF MEASUBES TO WEIGHTS. 1 Minim is... | |
 | Richard Vine Tuson - 1869 - 332 pages
...line = -jJj inch 1 inch = -jj-./aos" seconds pendulum 12 „ = Ifoot 36 „ = 3 „ 1 yard Length of pendulum vibrating seconds of -\ mean time in the latitude of London, in > 39'1393 inches. a vacuum at the level of the sea . . . ) EELATION OF MEASXTEES TO WEIGHTS. 1 Minim... | |
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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... 
