 Greenwich as the starting point whence longitude is to be computed through one hundred and eighty degrees eastward and westward, and upon the adoption, for all purposes for which it may be found convenient, of a universal day which shall begin at midnight...  Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 5by Canadian Institute - 1886Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - 1884 - 1018 pages
...composed of representatives from twenty-five nations. The conference concluded its labors on the 1st of November, having with substantial unanimity agreed...'and whose hours shall be counted from zero up to twenty-four. The formal report of the transactions of this conference will be hereafter transmitted... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1885 - 704 pages
...composed of representatives from twenty-five nations. The conference concluded its labors on the 1st of November, having with substantial unanimity agreed...meridian and whose hours shall be counted from zero up to twenty-four. The formal report of the transactions of this conference will be hereafter transmitted... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1885 - 728 pages
...The conference concluded its labors on the 1st of November, having witli substantial unanimity agVeed upon the meridian of Greenwich as the starting point...meridian and whose hours shall be counted from zero up to twenty-four. The formal report of the transactions of this conference will be hereafter transmitted... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1886 - 344 pages
...TIME. On the first day of the month, the President of the United States, in his message at the opening of Congress, referred to the International Meridian...part in the initiation of the movement to reform our Time System , of which the success is, to some extent, indicated in the President's words. It therefore... | |
 | 1886 - 540 pages
...upon the meridian of Greenwich as 'the starting point whence longitude is to be computed through 180° eastward and westward, and upon the adoption for all...part in the initiation of the movement to reform our time system, of which the success is, to some extent, indicated in the President's words. It therefore... | |
 | 1886 - 880 pages
...November, having with substantial unanimity agreed upon the meridian of Greenwich as the starting-point whence longitude is to be computed through one hundred...meridian and whose hours shall be counted from zero up to twenty-four. The formal report of the transactions of this conference will bo hereafter transmitted... | |
 | 1886 - 884 pages
...eighty degrees eastward and westward¡ and upon the adoption, for all purposes for which it may lie found convenient, of a universal day, which shall...midnight on the initial meridian and whose hours shall bo counted from zero up to twenty-four. The formal report of the transactions of this conference will... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1889 - 994 pages
...General Arthur thus expressed himself on the subject: "The conference concluded its labors on the 1st of November, having with substantial unanimity agreed...meridian and whose hours shall be counted from zero up to twenty-four." There was no exaggerated importance in these allusions, for the conclusions of the conference... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 898 pages
...upon the meridian of Greenwich as the starting point whence longitude is to be computed through 180 degrees eastward and westward, and upon the adoption,...meridian and whose hours shall be counted from zero up to twenty-four. The formal report of the transactions of this conference will be hereafter transmitted... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 888 pages
...upon the meridian of Greenwich as the starting point whence longitude is to be computed through 180 degrees eastward and westward, and upon the adoption,...meridian and whose hours shall be counted from zero up to twenty-four. The formal report of the transactions of this conference will be hereafter transmitted... | |
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