Ready Reference Tables: Volume I. Conversion Factors of Every Unit Or Measure in Use ... Based on the Accurate Legal Standard Values of the United States. Conveniently Arranged for Engineers, Physicists, Students, Merchants, Etc, Volume 1J. Wiley & sons, 1904 - 196 pages |
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Page 164 - The coins of silver-standard countries are valued by their pure silver contents, at the average market price of silver for the three months preceding the date of this circular. tThe "British dollar...
Page 45 - Originally ( 1 795) the litre was intended to be identical with the cubic decimetre. The Third General Conference on Weights and Measures, meeting in 1901, decided to define the litre as the volume occupied by the mass of one kilogram of pure water at its maximum density under normal atmospheric pressure.
Page 29 - Lyons, proposed in 1670 a comprehensive decimal measurement system based on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth.
Page 15 - Henry, which is the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one international volt while the inducing current varies at the rate of one Ampere per second.
Page 112 - The current in amperes is equal to the electromotive force in volts divided by the resistance in ohms.
Page 83 - The unit of force is the dyne, and is that force which, acting on a mass of one gram for one second, gives to it a velocity of one centimeter per second.
Page 46 - For the purpose of estimating the duties on importations of grain, the number of bushels shall be ascertained by weight, instead of by measuring ; and sixty pounds of wheat, fifty-six pounds of corn, fifty-six pounds of rye, forty-eight pounds of barley, thirty-two pounds of oats, sixty pounds of pease, and forty-two pounds of buckwheat, avoirdupois weight, shall respectively be estimated as a bushel.
Page 164 - And the values so proclaimed shall be followed in estimating the value of all foreign merchandise exported to the...
Page 41 - ... to an established reference, usually expressed in decibels above the reference. circuit reliability The percentage of time a circuit is available to the user during a specified period of scheduled availability. circular mil The measurement unit of the cross-sectional area of a circular conductor. A circular mil is the area of a circle whose diameter is one mil, or 0.001 inch. clear channel A transmission path wherein the full bandwidth is available to the user, with no portions of the channel...
Page 46 - The unit or standard measure of capacity from which all other measures of capacity, as well for liquids as for dry goods, shall be derived, shall be the gallon containing ten imperial standard pounds weight of distilled water weighed in air against brass weights, with the water and the air at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, and with the barometer at thirty inches.