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The Meter’s Origins: A Clockwork Conspiracy?

OCT 01, 1991

DOI: 10.1063/1.2810309

John W. Dooley

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John W. Dooley, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.

© 1991 American Institute of Physics

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