 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - 1881 - 446 σελίδες
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - 1882 - 376 σελίδες
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1888 - 388 σελίδες
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | William James Milne - 1892 - 440 σελίδες
...units, viz. : surface, volume, capacity, and weight are derived. 1. The length of the meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the poles, but subsequent calculations have shown it to be a very little less than that. 2. The system... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 186 σελίδες
...measures. The basis of the whole system is the metre. The length of a metre is defined by a platino-iridium bar kept in the International Metric Bureau at Paris....LENGTH. TABLE. 10 millimetres ( mm ) = 1 centimetre ( c m). 10 centimetres — 1 decimetre ( dm ). 10 decimetres — 1 metre ( m ). 10 metres = 1 dekametre... | |
 | Edwin Crawford Hewett - 1897 - 370 σελίδες
...ordinary business transactions. The standard of the metric system is the Meter, which was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface at the sea-level. The meter is 39.37+ inches in length, or it is a... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - 1898 - 326 σελίδες
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - 1898 - 298 σελίδες
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - 1898 - 332 σελίδες
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one tneter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - 1898 - 296 σελίδες
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
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When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. 
