Metric System in Export Trade: Report to the International High Commission Relative to the Use of the Metric System in Export Trade |
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... expense . This same exporter stated that the metric system should be adopted as soon as possible . His recent tour of South America had convinced him absolutely of the necessity and desirability of this change . The question whether an ...
... expense . This same exporter stated that the metric system should be adopted as soon as possible . His recent tour of South America had convinced him absolutely of the necessity and desirability of this change . The question whether an ...
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... expense can be minimized or even avoided . ( 3 ) It is claimed also that much of existing information now in the workman's mind in customary units would be less useful when work- ing in the metric system . The sufficient answer to this ...
... expense can be minimized or even avoided . ( 3 ) It is claimed also that much of existing information now in the workman's mind in customary units would be less useful when work- ing in the metric system . The sufficient answer to this ...
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... expense at Paris the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the custody and comparison of the fundamental inter- national metric standards to which all metric units , measurements , and national standards of the world are ...
... expense at Paris the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the custody and comparison of the fundamental inter- national metric standards to which all metric units , measurements , and national standards of the world are ...
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... expense a scientific and permanent international bureau 1 of weights and measures , the location of which shall be at Paris . " ( Extract from convention of 1875 , signed for the United States by the United States ambassador to France ...
... expense a scientific and permanent international bureau 1 of weights and measures , the location of which shall be at Paris . " ( Extract from convention of 1875 , signed for the United States by the United States ambassador to France ...
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... expenses . One member of said board shall be designated by the President to serve for two years , one for four years , one for six years , one for eight years , and one for ten years , and thereafter each member so appointed shall serve ...
... expenses . One member of said board shall be designated by the President to serve for two years , one for four years , one for six years , one for eight years , and one for ten years , and thereafter each member so appointed shall serve ...
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Page 23 - Measures of Length 10 millimeters (mm.) = 1 centimeter (cm.) 10 centimeters = 1 decimeter (dm.) 10 decimeters = 1 meter (m.) 10 meters = 1 dekameter (Dm.) 10 dekameters = 1 hektometer (Hm.) 10 hektometers = 1 kilometer (Km.) 10 kilometers = 1 myriameter (Mm.) Measures of Surface 100 sq.