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Excerpt from The Weights and Measures Situation in Philadelphia: A Report Setting Forth the Results of the Lack of a System of Official Inspection and Regulation, Together With a Digest of Existing Laws and Ordinances on the Subject and a Suggested Legislative Program
On February 2, 1897, the Pennsylvania state capitol building was destroyed by fire. In the basement of that building was stored a set of standard weights and measures, which had been furnished by the national government to the end that a uniform standard of weights and measures may be established throughout the United States. This set, like those furnished to the other states, consisted of upwards of a hundred pieces. It comprised weights of brass and of silver wire, ranging from fifty pounds avoir dupois to one-ten-thousandth of an ounce troy, and from one myriagram to one milligram in the metric system; a yard and two meters; and brass capacity measures, consist ing of one half-bushel, liquid measures ranging from a gallon to a half-pint, and a liter and a decaliter in the metric system. There were also three even-arm balances.
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