YARD GETTING SHORTER
POUND LOSING WEIGHT. All British weights and measures depend in the last resort on the weight and length of two pieces of metal known as the Imperial standard pound and yard. But it appears that these two pieces are themselves getting lighter and shorter respectively. The Stationery Office recently, published the report on the re-examination of the Imperial Standards, which the law requires to be made every ten years. The experts, after five years of tests, from 1922 to 1927, give it as their opinion that: The Imperial standard yard is now about two ten-thousandths of an inch shorter than in 1852; and the Imperial standard pound has lost about one fivemillionth of its weight. The nature and condition of the Imperial standard pound and its copies seem to be such that it is impossible to disregard the possibility that they may all be slowly losi”- masis. The report also expresses the view that the Imperial standard yard and pound should be replaced by standards of greater accuracy and refinement.
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Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 2
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173YARD GETTING SHORTER Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 2
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