The School of Mines Quarterly, Volume 14

Voorkant
Columbia University, 1893
 

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Pagina 125 - ARTICLE 2. The French Government shall take all the necessary measures to facilitate the purchase, or, if expedient, the construction, of a building which shall be especially devoted to this purpose, subject to the conditions stated in the regulations which...
Pagina 203 - June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and consisting of one standard yard measure and one set of standard weights, comprising one Troy pound, and nine avoirdupois weights of one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, twenty-five and fifty pounds respectively; one set of standard Troy ounce weights...
Pagina 131 - Yard, when compared with a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time in the latitude of London in a vacuum at the level of the sea, is in the proportion of thirty-six inches to thirty-nine inches and one thousand three hundred and ninetythree ten thousandth parts of an inch...
Pagina 203 - ... is divided into three equal parts called feet, and each foot into twelve equal parts called inches. For measures of cloths and other commodities commonly sold by the yard...
Pagina 99 - ... will be found pioneer work of great value, much of which has been lost sight of on account of the greater development of the same territory by subsequent expeditions. In an appreciative sketch of him by Kemp, his successor at Columbia, that appeared at the time of his death, I find this statement: His determinations of strata in the west, although based on the hasty itineraries of exploring parties, have been very generally corroborated by later and more deliberate work.1 His wonderful " ability...
Pagina 131 - 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
Pagina 101 - Report on the Economic Geology of the Route of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon Railroad.
Pagina 192 - Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
Pagina 114 - Sunday, and bid 16 men to stop, tall ones and small ones, as they happen to pass out when the service is finished ; then make them put their left feet one behind the other and the length thus obtained shall be a right and lawful rood to measure and survey...

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