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" ... for the legal determination of the standard Yard, that which was employed by General Roy, in the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath, as a foundation for the trigonometrical operations that have been carried on by the Ordnance throughout the country... "
Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 62
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 1

1819 - 480 pages
...proportions to each other, as are at present in general use." 3. That the standard yard should be that employed by General Roy in the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath, as a foundation of the great trigonometrical survey. 4. That in case this standard should be lost or impaired, it shall...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 1

1819 - 482 pages
...proportions to each other, as are at present in general use." 3. That the standard yard should be that employed by General Roy in the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath, as a foundation of the great trigonometrical survey. 4. That in case this standard should be lost or impaired, it shall...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 1

1819 - 480 pages
...at present in general use." * j/sci ,« 3. That the standard yard should be that employed by Genend Roy in the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath, as a foundation of the great trigonometrical survey. . . , ' • 'nan 4. That in case this standard should be lost...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 16

Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 574 pages
...preferred, without any difference that would become sensible in common cases ; we beg leave to recommend, for the legal determination of the standard Yard,...carried on by the Ordnance throughout the country, and a duplicate of which will probably be laid down on a Standard Scale, by the Committee of the Royal...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

1820 - 848 pages
...preferred without any difference that would become sensible in common cases, we beg leave to recommend, for the legal determination of the standard yard,...employed by general Roy in the measurement of a base on Hounslowheath, as a foundation for the trigonometrical operations that have been carried on by the...
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Annals of Philosophy, Volume 2

1821 - 512 pages
...consider the subject íiÉf weights and measures recommended in the First Report, .<' for the iegal determination of the standard yard, that which, was employed by General Roy in the measurement of a bâta-on Hoimslow Heath," as a foundation for the trigonometrical »operations that have been carried...
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A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...

Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...other as are at present in general use. " 3. That the standard yard should be that employed by Gen. Roy in the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath, as a foundation of the great trigonometrical survey. " 4. That in case this standard should be lost or impaired, it...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 36

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 pages
...preferring the duodecimal to the decimal system. It also recommends — That the standard yard be a copy of that which was employed by General Roy in the measurement...as a foundation for the trigonometrical operations since carried on by the Ordnance throughout the country. That this standard yard, if lost, should be...
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A Dictionary of Chemistry ...

Andrew Ure - 1828 - 872 pages
...proportions to each other as are at present in general use. " 3. That the standard yard should be that employed by General Roy in the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath, as a foundation of the great trigonometrical survey. " 4. That in case this standard should be lost or impaired, it...
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A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy: With Their Applications

Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 pages
...proportions to each other as are at present in general use. " 3. That the standard yard should be that employed by General Roy in the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath, as a foundation of the great trigonometrical survey. Pace and Denomination of Weight!. Marc. oz. gro». [rains. F....
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