An attempt toward obtaining invariable measures of length, capacity, and weight, from the mensuration of time, independent of the mechnical operations requisite to ascertain the center of oscillation or the true length of pendulums
Contributors: Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Weights and measures; Time measurements; Pendulum
Other titles: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Notes: The title page to this printing lacks author and imprint information; probably extracted from a copy of Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.

Signatures: [A]1 B-I⁴.

"Appendix to Mr. Whitehurst's attempt toward obtaining an invariable measure, by the editor": 6 p., 5th group of paging.

"Three papers on different subjects from the Philosophical transactions": p. [1], 6th group of paging.

"I. Thermometrical observations at Derby, by Mr. John Whitehurst ...": p. 3, 6th group of paging.

"II. Account of a machine for raising water ... in a letter from Mr. John Whitehurst to Dr. Franklin ...": p. 4-6, 6th group of paging (includes a woodcut ill.)

"Experiments on ignited substances. By Mr. John Whitehurst ...": p. 7-9, 6th group of paging.

Errata: p. 34.

With : Douglas, James. A dissertation on the antiquity of the earth ... London : G. Nicol, 1785. Bound together subsequent to publication.