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THE present condition of things is such that students of engineering need familiarity with, and ability to use, both systems o measuring force and related quantities. It seems necessary, therefore, that the transition from one system to the other should be kept clear of complications, and be presented as the simple matter which it really is. But in two text-books which have come to my notice, each offering points of excellence, and both evidently written by competent hands, a change in the unit of mass occurs in passing from the absolute to the gravitation system. The unit-mass is defined as the mass in which unit-acceleration is produced by unit force, which, of course, gives about 32 pounds as the mass-unit for the British gravitation system.
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SLATE, F. Absolute and Gravitation Systems. Nature 44, 445 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044445b0
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