Measuring It Better: A Visit to Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
DEC 01, 1969
DOI: 10.1063/1.3035300
If you drive west from Paris toward Versailles, you can easily pass through the little town of Sèvres without knowing that in it is the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Only when you turn through a narrow arched gateway and climb a few hundred yards through the woods to a small clearing in the Pare de St Cloud do you come to the little historic manor, Pavilion de Breteuil.
© 1969. American Institute of Physics