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World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

by Robert P. Crease

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Offers the story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement.
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Didn't read all of this, just the parts I was interested in ( Watt balance ) and skipped over a lot of the triva ( )
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Didn't read all of this, just the parts I was interested in ( Watt balance ) and skipped over a lot of the triva ( )
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530.8Natural sciences and mathematics › Physics › Physics › Physical units, measuring instruments

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QC83.C74Science › Physics › Physics › Weights and measures

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