Standard Measures of United States, Great Britain, and France
by Arthur S. C. Wurtele
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wurtele, Arthur S. C., 1826-1886
- Title
- Standard Measures of United States, Great Britain and France History and actual comparisons. With appendix on introduction of the mètre
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Metric system
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54208
- Release Date
- February 19, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Standard Measures OF UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN, AND FRANCE.
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.STANDARD MEASURES. — ENGLISH STANDARDS OF LENGTH. — UNITED STATES. — FRANCE. — COMPARISONS OF UNITED STATES AND ENGLISH STANDARDS. — COMPARISON OF UNITED STATES AND FRENCH STANDARDS. — COMPARISON OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH STANDARDS. — DIFFERENT REDUCTIONS OF THE FRENCH TOISE INTO ENGLISH FEET. — MÈTRE IN INCHES. — LENGTH OF THE SECONDS PENDULUM AS GIVEN BY DIFFERENT WRITERS.
- 4.APPENDIX.
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