An attempt towards obtaining invariable measures of length, capacity, and weight
Subtitle: from the mensuration of time, independent of the mechanical operations requisite to ascertain the center of oscillation, or the true length of pendulums
By: by John Whitehurst, F.R.S., author of An inquiry into the original state and formation of the earth
Contributors: Longmate, Barak, 1768-1836, engraver; Jerry and Gene Jones Jefferson Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold by William Bent, Paternoster Row
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Units of measurement; Early works to 1800; Time measurements; Pendulum
Notes: Engravings by Longmate, with statement, "Pubd. as the Act directs by J. Whitehurst, Mar. 1, 1787" at bottom of each plate.

Signatures: [A]² B-G⁴.

Errata: p. 34.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1214

ESTC T144683

LC copy gift of Jerry and Gene Jones, 30 May 2001.