The following works are in the public domain. Their reprints here are also in the public domain, but have not been so dedicated using the Creative Commons process.
Heyl, Paul R. and Guy S. Cook. "The Value of Gravity at Washington." Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards. Vol. 17 (December 1936): 805-839. Research Paper RP946. This paper was an official US Government publication and as such is in the public domain. Its PDF encoding here by Gordon Uber is also in the public domain. Thanks are due to him for its availability.
Stokes, Sir George Gabriel. "On the Effect of the Internal Friction of Fluids on the Motion of Pendulums." Read December 9, 1850. From the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Vol. IX. The PDF encoding of this paper by Gordon Uber, presented here, is also in the public domain. Thanks are due to him for its availability.
The following work is in the public domain.
The reprint of it here is dedicated to the
Public Domain.
Important disclaimers of warranty
and liability in the presentation of public domain material.
Photograph of Paul R. Heyl from Cochrane, Rexmond D. Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce - National Bureau of Standards, 1966: p. 244.
(The works noted above either appear directly on this page or are non-XHTML documents or images linked directly on this page. The copyright status and/or licensing terms of other works which appear on their own pages linked from this page, such as Engler's "Time-Keeping in London," are given on their own pages.)
The rest of this page is
copyright © 2004 by David M. MacMillan.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License.
lemur.com is a service mark of
David M. MacMillan
and Rollande Krandall.
Other trademark
recognition.
Presented originally by lemur.com.SM
