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The Metric System | Hearings Before a
Subcommittee of the Committee on Manufactures, United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, First and Second Sessions on S. 2267 a Bill to Fix the Metric System of Weights and Measures as the Single Standard of Weights and Measures for Certain
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Bijdragen tot de Kennis
Orthoptera. in C.J. Temminck, Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche Bezittingen. volume 2
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809:"Jefferson on Weights and Measures: Letter from the Secretary of State to the Speaker of the House of Representatives: New-York, July 4, 1790"
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in the UK and other
European countries in the 1800s used lines as a unit of measurement for insects, at least for the relatively large
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a former unit of measurement (about a third of an inch) based on the length of a grain of barley
615:. By United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures. 11 October 1921. p. 216.
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Encyclopaedia of
Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their SI Equivalences and Origins,
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Catalogue of the
Orthopterous Insects in the Collection of British Museum. Part I: Phasmidae
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277:-inch line (the "decimal line"), in part owing to the importance of the
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239:, British botanists continued to employ tools with gradations marked as
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121:The line was not recognized by any statute of the
341:which had been set precisely equal to an English
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389:Portuguese
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581:Jefferson
506:Citations
265:Gunsmiths
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196:a similar
113:in 1824.
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