 And we are fully persuaded, that with reasonable precautions, it will always be possible to provide for the accurate restoration of standards by means of material copies which have been carefully compared with them, more securely than by reference to...  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Page 82by Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1857Full view - About this book
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1887 - 494 pages
...Several measures however exist, which were most accurately compared with the former standard yard. And we are fully persuaded that, with reasonable precautions,...be possible to provide for the accurate restoration by means of material copies which have been carefully compared with them, more surely than by reference... | |
 | Robert Vickers Dixon - Expansion (Heat) - 1849 - 338 pages
...lost standards, recommended by the Act of 1824, could not be relied on, and expressed themselves " fully persuaded that, with reasonable precautions,...possible to provide for the accurate restoration of the standards, by means of material copies which have been carefully compared with them, more securely... | |
 | Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse - Calendar - 1856 - 232 pages
...exist which were most accurately compared with the former standard pound : and by the use of these the values of the original standards can be respectively...carefully compared with them, more securely than by reference to any experiments referring to natural constants. " From the evidence of persons best able... | |
 | American Pharmaceutical Association - 1859 - 442 pages
...Several measures however exist, which were most accurately compared with the former standard yard. And we are fully persuaded, that with reasonable precautions,...carefully compared with them, more securely than by reference to any experiments referring to natural constants." And the report concludes by recommending... | |
 | American Pharmaceutical Association. Annual Meeting - Pharmaceutical industry - 1859 - 444 pages
...Several measures however exist, which were most accurately compared with the tormer standard yard. And we are fully persuaded, that with reasonable precautions,...carefully compared with them, more securely than by reference to any experiments referring to natural constants." And the report concludes by recommending... | |
 | Astronomy - 1859 - 416 pages
...value of the latter could be restored without sensible error ; and they expressed their full conviction that, with reasonable precautions, it will always...carefully compared with them, more securely than by reference to any experiments referring to natural constants. The committee accordingly recommend a... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1866 - 524 pages
...been found to be doubtful, and they were fully persuaded that with reasonable precautions it would always be possible to provide for the accurate restoration of standards by means of material copies which had been carefully compared with them. They recommended ' that no chango be made in the values of the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1873 - 584 pages
...°f tne whole weight. The Committee were fully persuaded that with reasonable precautions, it would always be possible to provide for the accurate restoration of Standards by means of material copies which had been compared with them. And they had ascertained that several measures existed which had been... | |
 | Henry William Chisholm - Weights and measures - 1877 - 218 pages
...joooooo of the whole weight. The committee were fully persuaded that with reasonable precautions it would always be possible to provide for the accurate restoration of standards by means of material copies which had been compared with them. They had ascertained that several measures existed which had been most... | |
 | 1881 - 842 pages
...standards, stating also that they were " fully persuaded that, with reasonable precautions, it may always be possible to provide for the accurate restoration...have been carefully compared with them, more securely that by reference to experiments referring to natural constants." In 1 843, a Committee was appointed... | |
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