 | 1873 - 630 pages
...line = ~ inch. 1 inch = 39 1393 seconds-pendulum. 12 " = 1 foot. 36 " == 3 feet = 1 yard. Length of pendulum vibrating seconds of mean ] time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at V 39.1393 inches. the level of the sea j (1 cubic inch of distilled water at 62° F. and 30 inch Barom.... | |
 | Pharmacopoeias - 1873 - 416 pages
...= Jj inch. 1 inch = 55.TF57 seconds pendulum. 12 inches = 1 foot. 36 " = 3 feet = 1 yard. Length of pendulum vibrating seconds of') mean time in the latitude of London, in (-39.1393 inches. vacuum at the level of the sea, . . . j Relations of Measures to Weights. 1 Minim... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1873 - 584 pages
...Standard yard. With respect to the Standard unit of length, § 3 of the Act recited that the Imperial Standard yard, when compared with a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time m the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, had also been determined to be in the... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 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 to 39' '393 inches." The labour of reconstruction in accordance... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 280 pages
...yard shall be " thirty-six parts " (that is, inches), "of which there are 39'1373 in the length of a pendulum, vibrating seconds of mean time• in the latitude of London, in vacuofi at a temperature of 62° Fahrenheit." Compared with the French system of tenths, based on the... | |
 | Alfred Meadows - Medicine - 1874 - 296 pages
...1 line =. A mcn1 inch = ,,i^,t seconds pendulum. 12 „ =1 foot. 88 „ = 3 „ = Ijard. 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 . .) RELATION OP MEASUBEB TO WEIGHT. 1 minim in the... | |
 | Lorenzo Fairbanks - 1875 - 472 pages
...standard of length. These experiments were conducted by George Graham, who determined tl.e length of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time, in the latitude of London, at the temperature of 62° F., in a vacuum, at the level of the sea, to be In the then known units... | |
 | De Volson Wood - Mechanics, Analytic - 1876 - 500 pages
...defines the yard to contain thirty-six such parts, of which parts there are 39.1393 in the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in vacno, at the level of the sea, at temperature 62° F. The Commissioners, however, appointed to consider... | |
 | Henry William Chisholm - Weights and measures - 1877 - 218 pages
...standard yard. • With respect to the standard unit of length, § 3 of the Act recited that the imperial standard yard, when compared with a pendulum vibrating...latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, had also been determined to be in the proportion of 36 inches to 39- 1393 inches, and it was provided... | |
 | R. E - 1877 - 164 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...latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, ia in the proportion of thirty-six inches to thirty-nine inches and one thousand three hundred 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 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... 
