 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1923 - 812 pages
...prototype metre and kilogramme as fundamental standards, and the customary UHUK, the i/ar<l and tln> pound, will be derived therefrom in accordance with the Act of July 28, 1866." Mr. Stutz in his testimony before the committee quotes this sentence several times, referring to the... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1895 - 732 pages
...International Prototypes Metre and Kilogramme as fundamental standards, and the customary units — the yard and the pound — will be derived therefrom in accordance with the Act of July 28, " NOTE.— Reference to the act of 1866 results in the establishment of the following: Equations. 3600... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Mathematical geography - 1897 - 982 pages
...International Prototype Metre and Kilogramme as fundamental standards, and the customary units, the yard and the pound, will be derived therefrom in accordance...practically forced upon this office for several years, but it is considered desirable to make this formal announcement for the information of all interested... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - Hydrography - 1899 - 202 pages
...International Prototype Metre and Kilogramme as fundamental standards, and the customary units, the yard and the pound, will be derived therefrom in accordance...practically forced upon this Office for several years, but it is considered desirable to make this formal announcement for the information of all interested... | |
 | Mathematics - 1901 - 594 pages
...the international prototype meter and kilogram as fundamental standards, and the customary units, the yard and the pound, will be derived therefrom in accordance...practically forced upon this Office for several years," etc. The Treasury Department is the department to which are attached the Mint, the Marine Hospital... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1956 - 40 pages
...International Prototype Meter and Kilogram as fundamental standards, and that the customary units would be derived therefrom in accordance with the Act of July 28, 1866. The relation 1 US yard=- -^= meter, derived from the Law of 1868 that made the use of the metric system... | |
 | William Hallock, Herbert Treadwell Wade - Metric system - 1906 - 324 pages
...International Prototype Meter and Kilogram V as fundamental standards, and the customary units, the yard and the pound, will be derived therefrom in accordance with the Act / ; of July 28, 1866." 3 Here, again, we find a matter of fundamental importance settled by Executive order, and the United... | |
 | William Hallock, Herbert Treadwell Wade - Metric system - 1906 - 332 pages
...the International Prototype Meter and Kilogram as fundamental standards, and the customary units, the yard and the pound, will be derived therefrom in accordance with the Act of July 28, 1866."3 Here, again, we find a matter of fundamental importance settled by Executive order, and the... | |
 | Frederick Henry Hatch, E. J. Vallentine - Mines and mineral resources - 1907 - 220 pages
...Prototype Meter and Kilogram* as fundamental standards," and states that "the customary units, the yard and the pound, will be derived therefrom in accordance with the Act of July 28, 1866." The metric equivalents of the yard and the pound legalised by this Act differ in a slight degree from... | |
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... the office of weights and measures, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, will in the future regard the international prototype meter and kilogram as fundamental standards, and the customary units, the yard and the pound, will be derived... 
