NIST Colloquium Series: The Measure of All Things

In this session from the NIST Colloquium Series, Ken Adler, author of "The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World", tells the story of the seven-year, trouble-filled 18th century expedition that established the distance for the meter ... and about the secret "error" held from the public about this famous measurement.

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Science & Technology

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• NIST Colloquium Series
• The Measure of All Things
• Ken Adler
• Odyssey
• secret
• measurement
• government
• meter
• France
• history
• longitude
• latitude

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[19Edurne]

At 11:46 it's the "aune" (pronounced almost like "own" in english).

At 56:56, it's "teodolites"

[papu654]

great



[BlackvvvFist]

Very interesting.