American waltham watch company

• Book ID: 104115853
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1902
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 154
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(02)90130-4

✦ Synopsis

And to the meritorious feature, thus demonstrated, of the adaptation rather of our present fundamental unit of measurement--the inch--to the inter-conversion or metric system, in preference to its abolition, I may show a further addition by mentioning that by substituting, instead of /7, and expressed in the same units of 2'5 square inches, the value B/d, or properly the value B/(d. 2'5); B being the weight in American (new)