Scope and Contents Printed papers relating to the Standards Commission, including a list of documents laid before the Commission; papers by the Warden of the Standards on weights and measures and metrication; clearing house returns; plans for measuring apparatus; a copy of the Commission's findings; drafts of the Commission's reports; a watercolour of proposed standards of length; a letter in 'The Times'; and four reports of the Warden of the Standards of the weights and measures department at the Board of...

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A register of the attendance of computers and memoranda of the work done for the Standards Commission.

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Remarks on the report of the commissioner for restoring the British Standards, including a discussion on the origin of the Troy Pound. The report is mainly concerned with the Imperial Weights.

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Printed copies of the reports of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the condition of the Exchequer Standards.

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Richard Sheepshanks' correspondence with Airy, F. Baily, Sir J.F.W. Herschel, T. Maclear and W.H. Miller concerning standards and the Standards Commission.

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Experiments and tests on individual thermometers for the Standards Commission. The volume includes calculations on the graduations of thermometer, means of determining error, boiling and freezing points of thermometers, errors of sub-divisions on thermometers, conversions into fahrenheit, comparisons with barometers, and a table of equivalents for thermometers, all by R. Sheepshanks. There are also some comparisons by J. Glaisher.