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1832 The United States Department of the Treasury adopted yard, avoirdupois pound, gallon, and bushel standards. In 1830 the Senate directed that a survey of the situation be made and this task was passed to F.R. Hassler, Superintendent of the Coast Survey. As expected, he found that the weights and measures used in various ports differed from each other significantly, though their average values appeared to agree well with the values used in England. He filed a preliminary report in 1831, followed by a final report in 1832, and Congress finally directed that something be done by the Secretary of the Treasury.4 The Secretary of the Treasury (under whom the Coast Survey office worked) settled upon standardizing on the yard, pound, gallon, and bushel in use in England at the time of the American Revolution. In 1815, Hassler had bought a yard scale made by Troughton of London in 1814. This Troughton scale would later serve as a U.S. standard yard, from 1832 to 1857, when it was superseded by the Bronze Yard. The pound selected was the pound avoirdupois and was scaled up from the troy pound used by the mint by the factor of 7000/5760, those two numbers being in terms of the grain, which remains the unit of mass common to both pounds. The gallon selected was the Queen Anne wine gallon, most commonly used in the United States at that time and used in Great Britain until 1824. The bushel selected was the Winchester bushel, which appears to date back in England to the time of Henry VII. The size attributed to this bushel in the United States was 2150.42 cubic inches based on the average of the American port survey results. As it turns out, the Winchester bushel used in England had been set at 2148.28 cubic inches, so right from the start the American bushel differed from even the old English bushel. At the time they were selected, the gallon and bushel selected were no longer used in Great Britain, though they had been at the time of the American Revolution. Thus, the nonmetric standards in the U.S at this time were not "Imperial" as many Americans today tend to believe. Imperial measures in Great Britain were not established until 1824, after the American Revolution.4, 14

Found it. 1805 The United States was given an iron copy of the standard meter bar and a brass copy of the standard kilogram mass. Twelve copies of the archive meter were made of iron under the direction of J.G. Trallés, of the Helvetic Republic and a member of the committee responsible for the archive meter (le mètre étalon) and archive kilogram (le kilogramme étalon). Copies in brass were also made of the archive kilogram.. A copy of each of these was given to Ferdinand R. Hassler, who had been selected by President Thomas Jefferson to conduct the first survey of the east coast of the United States. The iron copy of the archive meter became known in the U.S. as "the committee meter" and the brass copy of the archive kilogram became known as "the committee kilogram". Hassler sold these to a member of the American Philosophical Society who stored them with the Society. Later, Hassler borrowed these as needed and used the committee meter as the reference for the surveys conducted by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. It and the committee kilogram were used by the Survey for other scientific work as well from 1807 to 1893.

Hmm FOOD FOR THOUGHT! That Trackmaker GEO*Trailblazer 1 mentioned goes to 13 decimal places. Hmm. And it with let you enter it into almost any GPS although you do not see them the decimals are there,try the opposite in that you take a reading(GPS) then download it through this trackmaker(decimals) it will give you the 13 decimal points. Now you can also use this precision to add a track (a strait line) with an azimuth N(69.2555555*)E and bearng(1337 feet,meters,miles,yards) to as many decimals. From (P.O.B.) Point of beginning of the given survey,or coordinates. You can then create a new waypoint(coordinates) at the 2nd point and then (a strait line) with an azimuth and bearing to point 3 ect and 4.Closing the rectangle or square or if 3 points used a triangle. Is in not true that the 1st letter N or S orients the 0 of the 360 to the start North or start South,the degrees and the closing for the same E W. thus if you go N 0* or S 180* there is no W E if it is 0*.1 it would be E. If 359 W ect..

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Might be a good Idea t have the both a cheap throw away for trashy jobs along the Highways and a nice one with pockets and the LOGO on both sides,don't forget the LOGO on both side.....and did I mention pockets,on the better one.

I Would just log a note on the benchmark page itself explaning the diffrences.