 | Weights and measures - 1918 - 48 pages
...Mendenhall, 1841-1924. On April 5, 1893, TC Mendenhall, then Superintendent of Weights and Measures, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, decided...for metric and customary weights and measures. This decision, which has come to be known as the "Mendenhall Order," was first published as Bulletin No.... | |
 | Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research - United States - 1925 - 326 pages
...Measures, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, adopted the international meter and kilogram as the fundamental standards of length and mass in the United States. From these fundamental standards the customary units — the yard and the pound — are derived by... | |
 | Gustavus Adolphus Weber - Administrative agencies - 1925 - 326 pages
...Measures, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, adopted the international meter and kilogram as the fundamental standards of length and mass in the United States. From these fundamental standards the customary units — the yard and the pound — are derived by... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1907 - 454 pages
...President had already been taken." On April 5, 18915, the Superintendent of Weights and Measures, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, decided...had always been regarded as our fundamental metric standards, and the international meter and kilogram had identical values so far as could be determined... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on coinge, weights & measures - 1928 - 114 pages
...measures, Bureau of Standards: " On April 5, 1893, the superintendent of weights and measures dec'ded that the international meter and kilogram, would,...regarded as the fundamental standards of length and mass of the United States, both for metric and customary weights and measures. The effect of this decision... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1928 - 196 pages
...and Measures of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, as the fundamental standards of length and mass in the United States, and they have been so recognized ever since that date. As to the attitude of the Bureau of Standards... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Government Operations - 1962 - 178 pages
...international meter and kilogram, deposited in the vault of the International Bureau in Sevres, France, would in the future be regarded as the fundamental...standards of length and mass in the United States. That decision, although it never has had the official sanction of Congress, has stood the test of time... | |
 | R. G. Liptai, Jack W. Pearson - Metric system - 1975 - 350 pages
...was not legalized in this country until 1866. In 1893, the international metre and kilogram became the fundamental standards of length and mass in the...both for metric and customary weights and measures. A2.2 Meanwhile, international standardization began with an 1870 meeting of 15 nations in Paris that... | |
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In 1893, the international metre and kilogram became the fundamental standards of length and mass in the United States, both for metric and customary weights and measures. 
