Excerpt from Testing of Timepieces The functions of the National Bureau of Standards include the testing and comparison with standards, of various kinds of measuring apparatus, and the certification of the accuracy of such instruments. Included in such measuring apparatus are timepieces of various kinds, such as pocket watches, wrist watches, stop watches, chronometers, clocks, and chronographs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Measurement of Time and Tests of Timepieces: December 1, 1914 The functions of the Bureau of Standards include the testing and com parison with standards of various kinds of measuring apparatus, and the certification of the accuracy of such instruments. The principal Object of this standardization is to bring about better agreement with the standards of the United States of all measuring apparatus used in the comparison of physical quantities, and to increase the accuracy of measurement of the physical and chemical properties of matter. This service is performed for the public, as well as for the various departments of the National and State Governments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Prentice-Hall Tax Service for 1919 This allowance is not based upon the difference between the actual war cost of such facilities and what they would have cost at pre-war prices. Obviously the taxpayer is not entitled to recover or extinguish through amortization more than the difference between the war cost of such property and what he can sell the property for after the war, or if he continues to need and use it in his business, what it would have cost him after the war. As the rule is expressed in Article 183 of the Regulations: The total amount to be extinguished by amortization, in general, is the excess of the unextinguished or unrecovered cost of the property over its maximum value (either for sale or for use as part of the plant or equipment of a going business) under stable post war. Conditions.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Perfected American Watch Splendid investment. It gives better return and depreciates less in proportion than any other article of personal wear or use. Like the human heart, it works unremittingly. If treated with common care and cleaned as occasion requires, it will, excepting accidents, outlive its wearer. Though the case be thinner at the end of twenty years than it was when new, the movement, if originally good, will be as vigorous and exact as the day it left the factory. Moreover, it never goes out of vogue. How much is an overcoat that cost you forty dol lars worth after five years' wear, com pared with a watch that cost the same We are speaking now about the waltham watch, and to the person who is not carrying one. Eleven mil lion people have them. To such the watches have told their own story. Fifty years ago all watches were made in Eu ro p e, chiefly in Switzerland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.