A discussion on Units and Standards

C. Darwin

DOI:10.1098/rspa.1946.0039

Corpus ID: 44706685

A discussion on Units and Standards

@article{Darwin1946ADO,
  title={A discussion on Units and Standards},
  author={C. Darwin},
  journal={Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences},
  year={1946},
  volume={186},
  pages={149 - 217}
}

C. Darwin

Published 1946

Medicine, Computer Science

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences

The sequence of papers following, contributed by members of the staff of the National Physical Laboratory, gives an account of most of the units and standards which are studied at the Laboratory. Each paper explains briefly the principal technical points involved, together with a short history. Of necessity a standard is to some extent a convention, and it may therefore be well to introduce the subject by a short review of the legal and conventional authorities on which they depend. For the… CONTINUE READING

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