Show MEASURES THAT ARE STANDARD much care car taken to preserve them correctly A gallon is exactly ten pounds of ii distilled stilled water so when housewives say a pint s a pound the world around they are mistaken the ina ion aerial standard yard which is the same as our own Is the distance between two fine lines on a bar of bronze measured at 62 degrees fan fah the bar Is kept mounted on eight rollers in a special steel sate safe in london the standard pound Is kept in a silver gilt box con contained tallied in a bronze box the top of which la Is secure ly screwed down and the whole placed in a special compartment of the same safe the german metric system took the place of more than twenty local measures the hesse darmstadt toot foot was less than ten inches the schwarzberg rudolstadt Rud toot foot more than fifteen |