 | Robert Potts - Arithmetic - 1876 - 392 pages
...bushel shall be the circumference of the base of the cone. The Act also provides that the straight line between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod made by Mr. Bird, whereon the words and figures " standard yard, 1760," are engraved, shall be the... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1877 - 764 pages
...day of May, 1825, [subsequently extended to the first of January, 1826,] the straight line, or the distance between the centres of the two points in...straight brass rod now in the custody of the clerk of the Ilouse of Commons, whereon the words and figures ' Standard Yard, 1760,' are engraved, shall be... | |
 | R. E - 1877 - 164 pages
...brass weight of one pound troy weight, made in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight, now in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, the original and genuine standard measure of weight,... | |
 | Charles Piazzi Smyth - Great Pyramid (Egypt) - 1880 - 752 pages
...manufactures and commerce, the following words of the Act (June, 1824) sufficiently testify : — " The straight line or distance between the centres...Commons, whereon the words and figures standard yard of 1760 are engraved, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, the original and genuine standard... | |
 | 1880 - 436 pages
...enacted . . . that from and after the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the Straight Line or Distance between the Centres...the House of Commons, whereon the Words and Figures ' Standnrd Yard 1760' are engraved, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be the original and... | |
 | Edward John Routh - Dynamics, Rigid - 1882 - 408 pages
...as a national standard of length. By an Act of Parliament passed in 1824, it was declared that the distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod then in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the words and figures " standard... | |
 | Engineering - 1882 - 536 pages
...May, one thousand ! eight hundred end twenty-five, the straight line or distance between the centers of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod, DOW in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the words and figures "Standard Yard,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1824 - 826 pages
...the Centres of the ^wo P°mfcs in the Gold Studs in the Straight Brass Rod, now in Length shall be the Custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the the Unit of the Words and Figures " Standard Yard, 1760," are engraved, shall be and the same is hereby... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 pages
...yard. The length of the imperial standard yard, according to an act of parltamentpassed in 1824, was the straight line or distance between the centres of the two points iii the gold studs in the brass rod in the custody of the clerk of the House nf Commons, entitled,... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884 - 968 pages
...decided that the length of the yard should be — '• the straight line or distance between the centre of the two points in the gold studs in the straight...the Clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the words ' Standard Yard, 1760,' are engraved." This rod was subsequently destroyed in the fire, but a very... | |
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January, 1826, the straight line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod, now in the custody of the clerk of the! House of Commons, whereon the words and figures 
