 | 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... | |
 | John Groesbeck - Business mathematics - 1870 - 374 pages
...LENGTH. 229. The standard unit of length is the yard, and is determined as follows : — A pendv lum 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... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Physics - 1870 - 752 pages
...should he restored hy making a new standard yard, hearing the same proportion to a pendulum vihrating 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 hcing the length of the... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson, Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1871 - 384 pages
...them at 25 cents a peck ; how much did he make on the load ? Ans. $17.50. STANDARD OP EXTENSION. 202. The US standard unit of measures of extension, whether...of the sea, is divided into 391393 equal parts, and 36OOOO of these parts are 36 inches, or 1 standard yard. Hence, such a pendulum rod is 39.1393 inches... | |
 | John Groesbeck - Business mathematics - 1871 - 370 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 391,893 equal parts. 360,000 of these parts are equivalent... | |
 | John Attfield - Chemistry - 1871 - 568 pages
...line = ~ inch. lA 1 inch = 39~i393 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 >- 39.1393 inches. the level of the sea ) (1 cubic inch of distilled water at 62° F. and 30 inch Barom,... | |
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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... 
