...the same as the imperial standard yard of Great Britain. It is determined as follows : The rod of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time, in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, at the level of the sea, is divided into 391393 equal parts, and 360000 of these parts are 36 inches,...

...measures, that the said yard hereby declared to be the Imperial Standard Yard, when compared with a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of 36 to 39 inches, and 1393 ten thousandths part of...

...tho same as the Imperial standard yard of Great Britain. It is determined as follows : The rod of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time, in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, at the level of the sea, is divided into 391393 equal parts, and 360000 of these parts are 3(5 inches,...

...under the direction of the Lords of the Treasury, a new standard yard, bearing the proportion to a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London in a vacuum and at the level of the sea, as 36 inches to 39.1393 inches." The event contemplated by the last clause...

...consists of 100 links, each of them 7.92 inches. The yard is the imperial standard measure of length. A pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum, at the sea.level, and at 62' Fahrenheit, is equal to 39•1303 inches : and a yard is to the length...

...and measures of Great Britain are the following : — I. LONG MEASURE. STANDARD. — The length of the pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London at 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, and in avacuum at the level of the sea, is equal to 39*1393, inches...

...otherwise injured, it should be restored by making a new standard yard, bearing the same proportion to a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum and at the level of the sea, as 36 inches bears to 39.1303 inches, the latter bcing the length of the...

...This section provides that the yard, if lost, &c., may be restored by reference to the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, in the proportion of 36 inches to 39 inches and -fflth part of an inch. 4....

...the barometer being at 30 inches."* What is an inch ? A measure bearing a certain proportion to " a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London in a vacuum at the level of the sea."f What is judicial proof? That which, being permitted by law to be given in...

...Miles =1 Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth. * The imperial standard yard, when compared with a pendulum, vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London in a vacuum, at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of 36 inches to 39-1393. Since the passing of this act,...