| Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...establishing their mutual relations, is thus described: — "The contents of the cube of the sixth part of the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, at the level of the sea, and in a vacunm (which has been the element for establishing linear measure),... | |
| Gustav Karsten - 1869 - 926 pages
...VIII. p. 1 ff. ' H. KATER Phil. Trans. 1818. Parti. S. 33. An account^f experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. SABINE Phil. Trans. 1831. Part HS 4Ö9. Experiments on the length of the seconds pendulum at the Royal... | |
| Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 pages
...warranted in taking 39.38 English as the length of the French platina standard metre, and 39.14 as the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. And if the attempt at a minuter decimal fraction than that of the 100th part of an inch in the making... | |
| Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1888 - 276 pages
...pp. 415-433. Paris, 1810. 4to. 20. — KATBR; Capt. HENRY. An account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. Phil. Trans., 1818, pp. 88-102. 21. — KATER; Cupt. HENRY. On the length of the French metre estimated... | |
| Balfour Stewart, William Winson Haldane Gee - 1885 - 316 pages
...him in the Philosophical Transactions for 1818, entitled, "An account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London." LESSON LV. — Determination of Gravity by Kater's Method. Exercise. — To adjust a Kater's pendulum... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1885 - 306 pages
...him in the Philosophical Transactions for 1818, entitled, "An account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London." LESSON LV. — Determination of Gravity by Kater•s Method. Exercise. — To adjust a Kater's pendulum... | |
| William Harkness - 1888 - 84 pages
...pp. 415-433. Paris, 1810. 4to. 20. — KATER; Capt. HENRY. An account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. Phil. Trans., 1818, pp. 33-102. 21. — KATER ; Capt. HENRY. On the length of the French metre estimated... | |
| 1888 - 936 pages
...pp. 415-483. Paris, 1810. 4to. 20. — KATEB; Capt. HENRY. An account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. Phil. Trans., 1818, pp. 33-102. 21.— KATER; Cupt. HENRI. On the length of the French metre estimated... | |
| Internationale Erdmessung. Zentralbureau, Otto Börsch - 1889 - 258 pages
...Compensation Pendulum. (Nicholson, Journ. XX, 1808, p. 214-220.) An account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. (Phil. Trans. 1818. p. 32-109.) An account of experiments for determining the variation in the length... | |
| James Howard Gore, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1889 - 214 pages
...pendulum. (H.) Journ. Nat. Phil. (Nicholson), xx, 1608, 214-220. An account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. Roy. Soc. London, Phil. Trans., 1818, 32-109. Kater (Henry) — Continued. On tho length of the French... | |
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