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" The straight line or distance between the centres of the transverse lines in the two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in the Office of the Exchequer shall be the genuine standard of length at 62° F., and if lost it shall be replaced by means of... "
An Elementary Treatise on Heat - Page 66
by Balfour Stewart - 1866 - 392 pages
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Theory of Heat

James Clerk Maxwell - Science - 1871 - 346 pages
...line or 1 18 & 19 Viet. c. 72, July 30, 1855. distance between the centres of the transverse lines in the two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in...Exchequer shall be the genuine standard yard at 62° F., and if lost it shall be replaced by means of its copies.' The authorised copies here referred to...
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Matter and Motion

James Clerk Maxwell - Force and energy - 1876 - 140 pages
...1855, which enacts " that the straight line or distance between the centres of the transverse lines in the two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in...Exchequer shall be the genuine standard yard at 62° Fahrenheit, and if lost, it shall be replaced by means of its copies." The metre derives its authority...
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Elementary Arithmetic: With Brief Notices of Its History, Volumes 1-12

Robert Potts - Arithmetic - 1876 - 389 pages
...provides that the straight line, or distance between the centres of the two gold plugs or pins in the new bronze bar, deposited in the office of the Exchequer, shall be the genuine standard yard of thaïs measure of length called a yard, 2 and the said line or distanco between the said plugs or...
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Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical, Volume 2

William Allen Miller - Chemistry - 1877 - 840 pages
...passed in 1855, whereby it is enacted, ' that the straight line or distance between the centres of two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in the...the Exchequer shall be the genuine standard yard at 61° Fahr., and if lost it shall be replaced by means of its copies.' (18) French or Metrical System...
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Advertiser Notes and Queries, Volume 1

Cheshire (England) - 1881 - 726 pages
...it was enacted " that the straight line or distance between the centres of the transverse lines in the two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in...Exchequer shall be the genuine standard yard, at 62° F. ; and if lost it shall be replaced by means of its copies." This standard was chosen so as to be...
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Advertiser Notes and Queries, Volumes 1-2

Cheshire (England) - 1882 - 510 pages
...it was enacted " that the straight line or distance between the centres of the transverse lines in the two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in...Exchequer shall be the genuine standard yard, at 62" F. ; and if lost it shall be replaced by moans of its copies." This standard was chosen so as to be...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Volume 50

Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1887 - 894 pages
...was enacted, " That the " straight line or distance between the centres of the transverse " lines in the two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in...Exchequer, shall be the genuine standard yard at " 62° F., and if lost shall be replaced by means of its copies." According to the Coinage Act, renewed in...
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A Treatise on Money and Essays on Present Monetary Problems

Joseph Shield Nicholson - Bimetallism - 1888 - 402 pages
...Statistical Society, March 1887. the straight line or distance between the centres of the transverse lines in the two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in...Exchequer shall be the genuine standard yard at 62° F., and if lost shall be replaced by means of its copies." According to the Coinage Act, renewed in...
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The Fundamental Principles of Chemistry: Practically Taught, by a New Method

Robert Galloway - Chemistry - 1888 - 378 pages
...Parliament passed in 1855, whereby it is enacted that the straight line or distance between the centres of two gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in the...Exchequer shall be the genuine standard yard at 62° F., and if lost it shall be replaced by means of its copies.' —Miller. 165. The French or metrical...
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Institutes of Economics: A Succinct Text-book of Political Economy for the ...

Elisha Benjamin Andrews - Economics - 1888 - 252 pages
...July 30, 1855, decreed " That the straight line between the centres of the transverse lines in the 2 gold plugs in the bronze bar deposited in the office...Exchequer shall be the genuine standard yard at 62° F." The US yard is supposed to accord with the above, but is in fact about 3-5^ of an inch longer....
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