| Henry Kater, Dionysius Lardner - 1852 - 408 pagina’s
...any little mass from one grain, or a little more, to the -r•jVff of a grain. For if the thing to he weighed weighs one grain, it will, when placed on one extremity of the heam, counterpoise the large gold weight at the other extremity. If it weighs half a grain it will... | |
| William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 282 pagina’s
...of the beam, I can learn the weight of any little mass from one grain or a little more to the rrVtr of a grain. For if the thing to be weighed weighs...the large gold weight at the other extremity. If it weighs half a grain, it will counterpoise the heavy gold weight placed at 5. If it weigh -fa of a grain,... | |
| William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 296 pagina’s
...parts of the beam, I can learn the weight of any little mass from one grain or a little more to the yyW of a grain. For if the thing to be weighed weighs...grain, it will, when placed on one extremity of the beamr counterpoise the large gold weight at the other extremity., If it weighs half a grain, it will... | |
| 1881 - 856 pagina’s
...of the beam, I can learn the weight of any little mass from one grain or a little more to the TaVff of a grain. For if the thing to be weighed weighs...the large gold weight at the other extremity. If it weighs half a grain, it will counterpoise the heavy gold weight placed at 5. If it weigh -fa of a grain,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 834 pagina’s
...parts of the beam, I can learn the weight of any little mass from one grain or a little more to the yjW of a grain. For if the thing to be weighed weighs...the large gold weight at the other extremity. If it weighs half a grain, it will counterpoise the heavy gold weight placed at 5. If it weigh ^ of a grain,... | |
| David M. Knight - 1998 - 692 pagina’s
...the beam, I can learn the weight of any little mass, from one grain or a little more to the T-^JTS of a grain. For if the thing to be weighed weighs...the heavy gold weight placed at 5 ; — if it weigh OG of a grain, you must place the heavy gold weight at 5, and one of the lighter ones at the extremity... | |
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