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An important question in metrology : based upon recent and original discoveries: a challenge to "the metric system." and an earnest word with the English-speaking peoples on their ancient weights and measures

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1884.
Call number: 709483
Creator: Totten, Charles Adiel Lewis (1851-1908)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 24 cm
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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An important question in metrology : based upon recent and original discoveries: a challenge to "the metric system." and an earnest word with the English-speaking peoples on their ancient weights and measures

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The metric system of weights and measures : speech of Charles Sumner in the Senate of the United States, July 17, 1866

The metric system of weights and measures : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner in the Senate of the United States, July 17, 1866