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This Strange Word of Verification
L.N. Bryansky. This Strange Word of Verification. The author of the article tells about the history of verifications in Russia, the origin of the term, and the creation of special services responsible for observance of weights and measures conformity...
Table for Conversion of Russian Measures, 1924
The original edition of 1924 is a reference book that presents the correlation between the ancient Russian measures of length, area, volume, and weight, and the corresponding units of the metric system. The presented material wa...
Old Odessa. Weights and Measures
O. Gubar. Old Odessa. Weights and Measures. The author of the essay tells about the development of the scales-building business in Odessa, about the unification of weight and volume measures, as well as about the activities of merchants and industria...
Essays on the history of Russian Metrology, 1975
N.A. Shostyin. Essays on the History of Russian Metrology. XI - early XX century, 1975.
General Metrology, 1849
Foma Ivanovich Petrushevsky (1785-1848) is known as a metrologist and translator of the works of Euclid and Archimedes. Petrushevsky's main work, the book "General Metrology", was published after his death.
Brief European Metrology, 1845
The book of the famous metrologist F.I. Petrushevsky (1785 – 1848) contains the information about units of measurement of volume, weight, length, area, and currency conversion.