 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1862 - 918 pages
...attention of Congress to the importance of a uniform system and a uniform nomenclature of weights and measures and coins to the commerce of the world, in...daring genius and patient endeavor which gave the steam engine and the telegraph to the service of mankind. The Secretary respectfully suggests the expediency... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1864 - 878 pages
...wisest of our stat< smen have regarded the attainment of this end so desirable in itself as by no mean 8 impossible. The combination of the decimal system...of nations untouched. is certainly not beyond the roaoli of the daring genius and patient endwvor which gave the steam-engine and the telegraph to the... | |
 | William Hallock, Herbert Treadwell Wade - 1906 - 324 pages
...attention of Congress to the importance of a uniform system and a uniform nomenclature of weights and measures, and coins to the commerce of the world in...daring genius and patient endeavor which gave the steam engine and the telegraph to the service of mankind. The Secretary respectfully suggests the expediency... | |
 | William Hallock, Herbert Treadwell Wade - 1906 - 334 pages
...means impossible. The combination of the decimal system with appropriate denominations in a scheme or weights, measures, and coins for the international...daring genius and patient endeavor which gave the steam engine and the telegraph to the service of mankind. The Secretary respectfully suggests the expediency... | |
 | Committee on the Preparation of the Semi- Centennial Volume - 1913 - 466 pages
...attention of Congress to the importance of a uniform system and a uniform nomenclature of weights and measures, and coins to the commerce of the world,...commerce, leaving, if need be, the separate systems of the nations untouched, is certainly not beyond the reach of the daring genius and patient endeavor... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - 1913 - 476 pages
...attention of Congress to the importance of a uniform system and a uniform nomenclature of weights and measures, and coins to the commerce of the world,...commerce, leaving, if need be, the separate systems of the nations untouched, is certainly not beyond the reach of the daring genius and patient endeavor... | |
 | 1971 - 326 pages
...end so desirable in itself as by no means impossible. The combination of the decimal system with the appropriate denominations in a scheme of weights,...for the international uses of commerce, leaving, if needs be, the separate systems of nations untouched, is certainly not beyond the reach of the daring... | |
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Congress to the importance of a uniform system and a uniform nomenclature of weights and measures, and coins to the commerce of the world in which the United States already so largely shares. The wisest of our statesmen have regarded the attainment of... 