Influence of high pressures on living organisms

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1884
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 118
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(84)90408-3

✦ Synopsis

Above are placed, side by side, the new scale~ the Birmingham* scale and the Darling, Brown & Sharpe scale, the values being given in fractions of an inch.

By comparison of the first two scales it will be seen that for the old series of four sizes from 0000 to 0 is substituted a series of seven sizes tioom 0000000 to 0, the first lying entirely outside the old series, and being exactly ½ inch. At No. 1 there is agreement between the two scales, the value being 0"3 inch. From this point to No. 30 there is substantial agreement. The six sizes following No. 30 in the old series range fl'om 0"1 to 0"004. To these correspond twelve sizes in the new. The last eight numbers in the new series have no counterpart in the old.