 | Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse - 1856 - 232 páginas
...pendulum vibrating seconds in a specified place. " That the length of the new Parliamentary standard be one yard ; there appearing no sufficient reason...length hitherto adopted for the standard. " That the name mityard, or some other to be fixed by act of Parliament, be recognized as describing the measure... | |
 | Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse - 1859 - 204 páginas
...pendulum vibrating seconds in a specified place. " That the length of the new Parliamentary standard be one yard ; there appearing no sufficient reason for departing from the length hitherto adoptedffor the standard. " That the name milyard, or some other to be fixed by act of Parliament,... | |
 | 1859 - 416 páginas
...Committee. "21. That the length of the new Parliamentary Standard be one yard ; there appearing to us no sufficient reason for departing from the length hitherto adopted for the standard. " 22. That the thermometrical expansion of the standard bar be determined by actual experiment on it.... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1866 - 530 páginas
...instructions specified in the report, and by comparison with the most carefully verified existing specimens. That the Parliamentary standard of length be one yard,...the standard. That the avoirdupois pound be adopted instead of the troy pound as the Parliamentary standard of weight, tho avoirdupois pound being invariably... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 584 páginas
...instructions contained in the Report, and by comparison with the most carefully selected specimens ; that the Parliamentary standard of length be one yard,...from the length hitherto adopted for the standard ; and that the Avoirdupois pound be adopted instead of the Troy pound as the Parliamentary standard... | |
 | Henry William Chisholm - 1877 - 218 páginas
...instructions contained in the report, and by comparison with the most carefully selected specimens ; that the parliamentary standard of length be one yard,...from the length hitherto adopted for the standard ; and that the avoirdupois pound be adopted instead of the troy pound as the parliamentary standard... | |
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... that the Avoirdupois pound be adopted instead of the Troy pound as the Parliamentary standard of weight, the avoirdupois pound being invariably known and generally used, and the Troy pound being wholly unknown to the great mass of the British population,... 