Author: Frederick Arthur Halsey
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Category : Exports
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Metric System in Export Trade
Author: Frederick Arthur Halsey
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Category : Exports
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Category : Exports
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Guide to Foreign Trade Statistics
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Exports
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category : Exports
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Metric System in Export Trade
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Metric Versus the English System of Weights and Measures ...
Author: National Industrial Conference Board
Publisher: New York : The Century Company
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher: New York : The Century Company
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Measure of All Things
Author: Ken Alder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074324902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator—a standard that would be used “for all people, for all time.” The Measure of All Things is the astonishing tale of one of history’s greatest scientific adventures. Yet behind the public triumph of the metric system lies a secret error, one that is perpetuated in every subsequent definition of the meter. As acclaimed historian and novelist Ken Alder discovered through his research, there were only two people on the planet who knew the full extent of this error: Delambre and Méchain themselves. By turns a science history, detective tale, and human drama, The Measure of All Things describes a quest that succeeded as it failed—and continues to enlighten and inspire to this day.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074324902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator—a standard that would be used “for all people, for all time.” The Measure of All Things is the astonishing tale of one of history’s greatest scientific adventures. Yet behind the public triumph of the metric system lies a secret error, one that is perpetuated in every subsequent definition of the meter. As acclaimed historian and novelist Ken Alder discovered through his research, there were only two people on the planet who knew the full extent of this error: Delambre and Méchain themselves. By turns a science history, detective tale, and human drama, The Measure of All Things describes a quest that succeeded as it failed—and continues to enlighten and inspire to this day.
Conversion to the Metric System of Weights and Measures, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology Of..., 94-1, April 29, 30; May 1, 6, 7, 8, 1975
Author: United States. Congress. House. Science and Technology Committee
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Conversion to the Metric System of Weights and Measures
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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U.S. Metric Study Report
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Metric system
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Weighing and Measurement
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Author: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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