Bulletin, Volume 2, Issues 26-35Coast and Geodetic Survey Office, 1899 |
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affords Alaska anchor anchorage angles bight bluff centimetres channel charts Chatham Strait Coast and Geodetic coefficients conditional equations connected constant of aberration constitute Vol Cooks Inlet Cove curve declination determined direction distance eastern shore eastward entrance extending feet flat Geodetic Survey harbor high water horizontal Inlet instrument kelp Killisnoo kilogramme lagoon latitude ledge length longitude low water magnetic MAGNETIC DECLINATION marked by kelp mean meridian method metre mid-channel Mitchell Bay mountain narrow navigation northern shore observations one-half mile pair pendulum Peril Strait Point Craven Point Gardner Point Thatcher probable error reefs rocky sand scale shoal side south shore southern point southward standard stars sunken rock Superintendent T. C. MENDENHALL tide tion topographical triangulation U. S. Coast variation vessels W. H. Dall Waikiki WASHINGTON weights and measures western Whitewater Bay wooded island Woody Point WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION yards zenith telescope
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Page 87 - Ampere, which is one-tenth of the unit of current of the CGS system of electromagnetic units and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with a certain specification, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second.
Page 88 - As a unit of work, the joule, which is equal to IOT units of work in the cgs system, and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the energy expended in one second by an international ampere in an international ohm.
Page 95 - The unit of induction shall be the henry, which is the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one international volt while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere per second.
Page 95 - As a unit of quantity, the international coulomb, which is the quantity of electricity transferred by a current of one international ampere in one second. As a unit of capacity, the international farad, which is the capacity of a condenser charged to a potential of one international volt by one international coulomb of electricity.
Page 94 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.
Page 94 - First. The unit of resistance shall be what is known as the international ohm, which is substantially equal to one thousand million units of resistance of the centimeter-gram-second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand...
Page 95 - As a unit of electro-motive force, the international volt, " which is the electro-motive force that, steadily applied to a " conductor whose resistance is one international ohm, will '• produce a current of one international ampere...
Page 3 - The next and in many respects the most important legislation upon the subject was the act of July 28, 1866, making the use of the metric system lawful throughout the United States and defining the weights and measures in common use in terms of the units of this system. This was the first general legislation upon the subject, and the metric system was thus the first, and thus far the only, system made generally legal throughout the country. In 1875 an international metric convention was agreed upon...
Page 2 - States may be induced to undertake a thorough reformation of their whole system of measures, weights and coins, reducing every branch to the same decimal ratio already established in their coins, and thus bringing the calculation of the principal affairs of life within the arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers, greater changes will be necessary.
Page 87 - System of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14-4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106-3 centimeters. " As a unit of current, the international ampere, which is onetenth of...