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- W4238474552 abstract "I. DURlNG the last few years public attention has been frequently drawn to the subject of our national weights and measures. The administrative and social questions of the improvement of our existing system, and of the proposed introduction into this country of the decimal metric system—first established in France, and now being generally adopted on the Continent of Europe, and indeed extending to the other quarters of the world—have formed the subjects of debate in every Session of Parliament, and are still awaiting solution. The scientific questions involved in the use of weights and measures have for a much longer period engaged the attention of many of our most eminent men of Science, several of whom have been members of the various Standards Commissions from time to time appointed by the British Government. These questions are also at the present time the objects of investigation and deliberation by the large body of scientific men from all civilised countries, who compose the International Metric Commission at Paris. It may, therefore, be useful to bring together and place before the public the several points involved in the science of weighing and measuring, and to give some account of our standards of weight and measure, as well as to describe in some detail the scientific construction of our existing impenal standard yard, and pound. No sufficient means have hitherto been adopted for making the general public acquainted with this part of the subject, although they are directly interested in it, the information hitherto published respecting it having been confined to a few papers in the “Philosophical Transactions,” and to reports of the several Standards Commissions, and other Parliamentary Returns. Of these papers the most important are those on the construction of the imperial standard pound, by Prof. W. H. Miller, in “Phil. Trans.,” 1856, and on the construction of the new imperial standard of length, by the Astronomer Royal, now Sir G. B. Airy, K.C.B., in 1857. In the following treatment of the subject use will be made of these papers, as well as of other authoritative works relating to weights and measures." @default.
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- W4238474552 title "On the Science of Weighing and Measuring, and the Standards of Weight and Measure" @default.
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