The Metric System, Hearings ..., on H.R. 10 ..., Feb 1-Mar 18, 1926 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ABERNETHY adopt the metric ALSTYNE American Chemical Society American Institute analytical reagent quality avoirdupois bottles British Britten bill Britten metric Bureau C. C. STUTZ Calif cent CHAIRMAN Chamber of Commerce Chemical Club Committee on Coinage compulsory adoption confusion Congress cost cubic DALE decimal system dimensions DOUGLASS engineer English system export favor fractions gallon gentlemen grams Grocers hearings inch industry Institute of Weights kilo kilograms letter liter machine MAGRADY Manufacturers membership meter metric legislation metric measures metric standards metric system metric units metric weights MILLER millimeters National Hay Association opposed organization ounce Potassium pound president prometric question railroad RANDOLPH PERKINS represent resolution retail ROBERTS Screw Thread Secretary Society standard of weights statement system of weights thing threads THURSTON tion to-day U. S. P. glass United States consul weights and measures WOLVERTON yard York City
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Seite 200 - As a unit of current, the international ampere, which is one-tenth of the unit of current of the CGS system of electro-magnetic units, and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current, which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water in accordance with accompanying specifications,1 deposits silver at the rate of o.ooi 1 1 8 of a gramme per second.
Seite 260 - That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the Metric System ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the Metric System.
Seite 200 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.
Seite 4 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am not going to take up much of your time, but I...
Seite 261 - ... the weight of the trade-dollar shall be four hundred and twenty grains troy ; the weight of the half-dollar shall be twelve grams (grammes) and onehalf of a gram, (gramme ;) the quarter-dollar and the dime shall be, respectively, one-half and one-fifth of the weight of said half-dollar...
Seite 261 - Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor thereof, one set of the standard weights and measures of the metric system for the use of the States, respectively.
Seite 304 - Representatives to extend a like improvement to our measures and weights, and to arrange them also in a decimal ratio? The facility which this would introduce into the vulgar arithmetic would, unquestionably, be soon and sensibly felt by the whole mass of the people, who would thereby be enabled to compute for themselves whatever they should have occasion to buy, to sell, or to measure, which the present complicated and difficult ratios place beyond their computation for the most part.
Seite 52 - Bureau of Weights and Measures .when this standard is at the temperature of melting ice (0° C). A yard (yd.) is a unit of length equivalent to 360%937 of a meter.
Seite 3 - The construction or use in the arts, manufacture, or industry of any specification or drawing, tool, machine, or other appliance or implement designed, constructed, or graduated in any desired system...
Seite 183 - С 2 The object of the Society is to promote the Arts and Sciences connected with Engineering and Mechanical Construction. The principal means for this purpose shall be the holding of meetings for the reading and discussion of professional papers, and for social intercourse ; the publication and distribution of its papers and discussions ; and the maintenance of an...