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Paper, 'An account of the comparison of various British standards of linear measure' by Capt Henry Kater

Reference number: PT/15/7

Date: 03 August 1820

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Subject: Metrology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the comparison of various British standards of linear measure'.

Read 18 January 1821.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/15/7
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03 August 1820
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Ink on paper
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29 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Kater

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Henry Kater, Paper, 'An account of the comparison of various British standards of linear measure' by Capt Henry Kater, 03 August 1820, PT/15/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_7/paper-an-account-of-the-comparison-of-various-british-standards-of-linear-measure-by-capt-henry-kater, accessed on 19 March 2025

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