 | Edward Charles Pickering - 1888 - 816 pages
...May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the Straight Line or Distance between the Centres of the Two Points in the Gold Studs in the Straight Brass...Commons, whereon the Words and Figures ' Standard Yard 1700 ' are engraved, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be the original and genuine Standard... | |
 | Charles Hutton Dowling - Metric system - 1891 - 234 pages
...straight line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the »traight brass rod now in the custody of the Clerk of the House...words and figures ' Standard Yard, 1760/ are engraved, the brass being at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit, to be denominated the ' Imperial Standard Yard.'... | |
 | Joseph Gregory Horner - English language - 1892 - 516 pages
...; when an Act was passed to the effect that " the straight line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass...in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons . . . the brass being at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, shall be, and is,... | |
 | Chemistry - 1893 - 602 pages
...follows: " SECTION I. Be it enacted .... that .... the straight line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass...shall be and the same is hereby declared to be the extension called a yard ; and that the same straight line or distance between the centres of the said... | |
 | William Chaffers - Goldwork - 1905 - 370 pages
...still exists at Goldsmiths' Hall. The standard brass weight of one pound troy made in the year 1758 is now in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, and is by 5 Geo. IV. c. 74 the established standard, and called " The Imperial Troy Pound." Very few... | |
 | Joseph Charles Park - Woodwork (Manual training) - 1909 - 336 pages
...1, 1826. Part of the statute is as follows: " The straight line or distance between the centers of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass...custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, whereon are the words and figures ' Standard Yard, 1760,' shall be, and is hereby declared to be, the unit,... | |
 | Henry Atton - Customs administration - 1910 - 546 pages
...or partial. and dry. The yard was defined as the measure of the straight line between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod (then in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, and marked ' Standard yard, 1760 '), when... | |
 | Joseph Charles Park - Woodwork (Manual training) - 1911 - 340 pages
...1, 1826. Part of the statute is as follows: " The straight line or distance between the centers of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass...custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, whereon are the words and figures ' Standard Yard, 1760,' shall be, and is hereby declared to be, the unit,... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1880 - 428 pages
...May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the Straight Line or Distance between the Centres of the Two Points in the Gold Studs in the Straight Brass...engraved, shall be and the same is hereby declared to lie the original and genuine Standard of that Measure of Length or lineal Extension called a Yard... | |
 | Alexander Wood - Physicians - 1983 - 392 pages
...enacted, that from and after the ist January, 1824, the straight line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass...and genuine standard of that measure of length or linear extension called a yard. The Act goes on to declare that, if the standard is defaced or destroyed,... | |
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May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the Straight Line or Distance between the Centres of the Two Points in the Gold Studs in the Straight Brass Rod, now in the Custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the Words and Figures 
