Measurements

Examples

• Houston & Kennelly in their Electricity in Everyday Life sum the matter up as follows: The Edison chemical meter is capable of giving fair measurements of the amount of current passing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In practice, and for measurements of a very delicate nature, the tasimeter is inserted in one arm of a Wheatstone bridge, as shown at A in the diagram (Fig. 2). Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I eat to keep my weight constant, hence I need never change measurements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I have tried to reconstruct it from the measurements. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He said that some twenty years ago a suit was sent to him from Orange, and measurements were made from it, and that every suit since had been made from these measurements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I knew that it was the mark made by Brunton in his measurements, and that I was still upon his trail. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Preparations are afoot, measurements are made, ground is staked out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The one nearest the Valley Road is called the galvanometer-room, and was originally intended by Edison to be used for the most delicate and minute electrical measurements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Accurate measurements show that these ornaments were not handwork, for there is not the slightest deviation in dimensions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Man has not been able to tell definitely just what the greatest depth of the ocean is, because it would be a practically unending task to go over every bit of it to take measurements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For many years a suit was used as a measurement; once or twice they took fresh measurements, but these didn't fit and they had to go back. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The most accurate measurements make the polar diameter about twenty-seven miles less than the equatorial, the equatorial diameter being found to be 7,925. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Editor: Roxanne