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" An Account of a Comparison Lately Made by Some Gentlemen of the Royal Society, of the Standard of a Yard, and the Several Weights Lately Made for Their Use; with the Original Standards of Measures and Weights in the Exchequer, and Some Others Kept for... "
Cavendish - Page 100
by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach - 1996 - 414 pages
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing ..., Volume 2

John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 788 pages
...paper of his was read June 1 6, 1 743, being an account of the Comparison, lately made by some members of the Royal Society, of the standard of a yard, and...made for their use; with the original standards of measure and weight in the Exchequer, and some others kept for public use at Guildhall, Founders Hall,...
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Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library - Engineering - 1866 - 414 pages
...clock's motion, occasioned by Lond. 1726 (Excerpt Phil. Trans, for 1726.) - An account of a comparison made by some gentlemen of the Royal Society, of the...standards of measures and weights in the Exchequer, and with some others kept for public use at Guildhall, &c. Tract. 8vo. vol. 33. Lond. 1744 Col. JD A lunar...
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Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library - Engineering - 1866 - 414 pages
...avoid the irregularities in a clock's motion, occasioned by Lond. 1726 (Excerpt Phil. Trans, for 1726.) of the standard of a yard, and the several weights...standards of measures and weights in the Exchequer, and with some others kept for public use at Guildhall, &c. Tract. 8vo. vol. 33. Lond. 1744 An account of...
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Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, Volume 10

Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1888 - 276 pages
...of the sa,me, kept at the Royal Society. Phil. Trans., 1742, pp. [185-188]. 7. — GRAHAM ; GKORQK. An account of a comparison lately made by some gentlemen of the Royal Society, of the standard of a j-ard, and the several weights lately made for their use ; with the original standards of measures...
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On the Progress of Science as Exemplified in the Art of Weighing and ...

William Harkness - Weights and measures - 1888 - 84 pages
...of the sa.me, kept at the Royal Society. Phil. Trans., 1742, pp. [185-188]. 7. — GRAHAM ; GEORGE. An account of a comparison lately made by some gentlemen of the Roy.il Society, of the standard of a yard, and tho several weights lately made for their use ; with...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1890 - 894 pages
...standards of the same, kept at the Royal Society. Phil. Trans., 1742, pp. [185-lHB]. 8. GRAHAM, GEOKGE. An account of a comparison lately made by some gentlemen...of the standard of a yard, and the several weights latelv made for their use; with the original standards of measures and weights in the Exchequer, and...
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Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library - Engineering - 1895 - 624 pages
...observatories of Greenwich and Paris has been determined. (From Phil. Trans.) Lond. 1790. 4to. ROYAL SOCIETY. Account of a comparison lately made by some gentlemen...standards of Measures and Weights in the Exchequer . . . GuildHall, Founders'-Hall, the Tower, etc. Tract. vol. 1. (From Phil. Trans.) Lond. 1743. 4to....
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Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...: Pe-Z ...

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library - Engineering - 1895 - 596 pages
...observatories of Greenwich and Paris has been determined. (From Phil. Trans.) Lond. 1790. 4to. ROYAL SOCIETY. Account of a comparison lately made by some gentlemen...standards of Measures and Weights in the Exchequer . . . GuildHall, Founders'-Hall, the Tower, etc. Tract. vol. 1. (From Phil. Trans.) Lond. 1743. 4to....
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1890 - 1050 pages
...standards of the same, kept at the Royal Society. Phil. Trans., 1742, pp. [185-186], 8. GRAHAM, GEOKGE. An account of a comparison lately made by some gentlemen...with the original standards of measures and weights iu tbe Exchequer, and some others kept for public use, at Guild-hall, Founders-hall, the Tower, etc....
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A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages ...

Ronald Edward Zupko - Reference - 1985 - 572 pages
...Abbey, ed. REG Kirk. (Camden Society Publication, New Series, Vol. 5l.) Westminster, l892. Account 1 "An Account of a Comparison Lately Made by Some Gentlemen...and the Several Weights Lately Made for Their Use, etc." Philosophical Transactions, 42 (l742-43), 544-56. (This article is concerned with the yard and...
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