Special Publications, Tema 2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898

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Página 5 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Página 5 - Principal Documents Relating to the Survey of the Coast of the United States since 1816, published by FR Hassler, Superintendent of the Survey.
Página 10 - Let the standard of measure, then, be a uniform cylindrical rod of iron, of such length as, in latitude 45°, in the level of the ocean, and in a cellar, or other place, the temperature of which does not vary through the year, shall perform its vibrations in small and equal arcs, in one second of mean time.
Página 13 - Union, or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the States respectively, to the end that a uniform standard of weights and...
Página 13 - The Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures of the House of Representatives is again considering the subject of the adoption of the metric system...
Página 26 - On the determination of an azimuth from micrometric observations of a close circumpolar star near elongation by means of a meridian transit, or by means of a theodolite with eyepiece micrometer.
Página 10 - Recommends that models of the yard, bushel, and pound, conforming to those in most common use, be made under the direction of a commission to be selected by the President, and which, if satisfactory to Congress, shall be declared the standard weights and measures of the United States.
Página 11 - States, and although totally unfit for such purpose it has since remained the standard for coinage purposes. " In 1830 the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to cause a comparison to be made of the standards of weight and measure used at the principal customhouses, as a result of which large discrepancies were disclosed in the weights and measures in use. The Treasury...
Página 13 - Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury, of scientific investigations in relation to sugar and hydrometers, made, under the superintendence of Prof.
Página 80 - Session, House of Representatives Misc. Doc. no. 5. Surveys of the Territories. Letter from the Acting President of the National Academy of Sciences, transmitting a report on the surveys of the Territories. Ordered printed, December 3, 1878. 8°. Pp. 1-27. Forty-seventh Congress, 2d Session. Senate Misc. Doc. no. 51. National Academy of Sciences. Investigation of the scientific and economic relations of the sorghum sugar industry, being a report made in response to a request from the Hon.

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