| Raymond Landon Bridgman, World Peace Foundation - 1911 - 330 pages
...practicable, the astronomical and nautical days will be arranged everywhere to begin at mean midnight 7. That the conference expresses the hope that the technical...to all cases in which it presents real advantages. These seven resolutions were adopted by votes varying from unanimity in case of the first and sixth,... | |
| Lawrence Johnstone Burpee - 1915 - 344 pages
...practicable the astronomical and nautical days will be arranged everywhere to begin at mean midnight. 'VII. That the Conference expresses the hope that...to all cases in which it presents real advantages.' In the second Resolution, San Domingo alone voted in the negative ; France and Brazil abstained from... | |
| Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) - 1886 - 544 pages
...nautical days will be arranged everywhere to begin at mean midnight." Carried without division. 7. " That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical...to all cases in which it presents real advantages." Adopted by the following vote: Ayes, 21; abstaining, 3. It was also resolved unanimously: "That a copy... | |
| American Society of Civil Engineers - 1891 - 328 pages
...those resolutions that especially concerns engineers is (see Proceedings Am. Soc. CE, Vol. XI, p. 14), "that the Conference expresses the hope that the technical...to all cases in which it presents real advantages." Twenty-one nations, including Great Britain and the United States, voted in favor of this resolution,... | |
| American Society of Civil Engineers - 1884 - 310 pages
...practicable, the astronomical and nautical days will be arranged everywhere to begin at mean midnight. VII. — "That the Conference expresses the hope that...application to all cases in which it presents real advantage." These resolutions of the International Conference are substantially in accord with the... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885 - 954 pages
...at mean midnight." 7. " That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical studies 3esigned to regulate and extend the application of the decimal...to all cases in which it presents real advantages." The action in the various countries upon these propositions, so far as it is known, is as follows.... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885 - 954 pages
...at mean midnight." 7. " That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical studies Jesigiied to regulate and extend the application of the decimal...application to all cases in which it presents real ad vantages." Ihe action in the various countries upon these propositions, so far as it is known, is... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 650 pages
...everywhere to begin at mean midnight." This resolution was carried without division. VII. "Resolved, That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical...to all cases in which it presents real advantages." The motion was adopted by the following vote : — In the affirmative — Austria-Hungary, Mexico,... | |
| American Metrological Society - 1889 - 948 pages
...practicable, the astronomical and nautical days will be arranged everywhere to begin at mean midnight. VII. — That the Conference expresses the hope, that...application to all cases in which it presents real advantage. Mr. Elliott said : The propriety of. alluding to the (carefully defined) meridian of Greenwich,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885 - 958 pages
...at mean midnight." 7. " That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical studies iesigned to regulate and extend the application of the decimal...application to all cases in which it presents real ad vantages." The action in the various countries upon these propositions, so far as it is known, is... | |
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