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" ... agreeing to introduce into the several States systems of which the meter should be the basis. Prussia, which had previously withheld assent, thus appears to join in the common movement. Switzerland will necessarily follow Germany, and already has... "
The Metric System Explained and Adapted to the Systems of Instruction in the ... - Page 3
by Charles Davies - 1867 - 20 pages
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Reports of Samuel B. Ruggles: Delegate to the International Statistical ...

Samuel Bulkley Ruggles - 1864 - 142 pages
...introduction of the metric system with the same nomenclature as in France. In consequence of this resolution, -the King of Sweden and Norway has appointed a commission...consider and report on the best mode of introducing the change. TURKEY. There are two units of length ; the first is the picco or aistren, equivalent to 0.6858...
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON COINAGE, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES OF THE HOUSE OF ...

1866 - 28 pages
...committee are informed that delegates of all the German States, at a meeting at Frankforton-the-Main, signed a convention agreeing to introduce into the...recommendation of the Scandinavian convention that advised it. We have the assurance of M. Kupfer, the distinguished superintendent of weights and measures...
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