"Decimeter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lengths in a given fixed distance between two planes with an error less than one part in two millions and probably one in ten millions. But the distance corresponding to 400,000 wave lengths is roughly a decimeter, and this cannot be determined or reproduced more accurately than say to one part in 500,000. So it would be necessary to increase this distance. This can be done by using the same instrument together ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 • Various |
