| 1825 - 458 pages
...measures, that the said yard, hereby declared to be the Imperial standard yard, when compared with a 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... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1823 - 586 pages
...The invariable natural standard to which reference is to be had for this purpose is directed to be a pendulum, vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, the length of which, when compared with that of the standard yard, was ascertained... | |
| 1825 - 490 pages
...Measures, that the said yard hereby declared to be the imperial standard yard, when compared with a 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... | |
| 1826 - 478 pages
...upon which I establish it. This clause asserts that the imperial standard yard is in the proportion to the length of the pendulum, vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London as 36 inches to 39-1393 inches. I consider this as premature ; for I would ask what inches, and whence... | |
| 1826 - 490 pages
...iipon which I establish it. This clause asserts that the imperial standard yard is in the proportion to the length of the pendulum, vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London as 36 inches to 39- 1393 inches. I consider this as premature ; for I would ask what inches, and whence... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1826 - 476 pages
...upon which 1 establish it. This clause asserts that the imperial standard yard is in the proportion to the length of the pendulum, vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London as 06 inches to 39- 1393 inches. I consider this as premature ; for I would ask what inches, and whence... | |
| 1826 - 460 pages
...has arrived in operation. The act declares the British imperial yard to bear a certain proportion to the " pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea." It neces-' ; sarily assumes, consequently, 1st. That the length in nature... | |
| 1826 - 488 pages
...MATHEMATICS, ANDERSON'S INSTITUTION, GLASGOW. (Communicated by the Author.} I. LONG MEASURE. STANDARD — 'The length of the Pendulum vibrating seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London at 62° of Fahrenheit's Thermometer, and in a Vacuum at the level of the Sea, is equal to 39.1393 inches... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 pages
...in case the said yard be lost, defaced, destroyed, or otherwise injured, it be restored by means of the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London. That the standard troy pound, made in 1758, be the original standard unit, or measure of weight, under... | |
| Esq. James Watson - 1828 - 602 pages
...sures, that the said yard hereby declared to be the im" perial standard yard, when compared with a 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... | |
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