Standards of Weights, Measures, and Coinage Act 1866

The Standards of Weights, Measures, and Coinage Act 1866[1] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Details

The act created a department of the Board of Trade called the Standard Weights and Measures Department.[2] This department was responsible for maintaining the weights and measures used in the country – in particular, the primary and secondary standards, the physical "master" weights and lengths that other measuring devices could be compared against.[3]

Notes
  1. This short title was conferred on this Act by section 16 of this Act.
  2. Turner 1983, p. 51
  3. Turner 1983, p. 51; Taylor 1991, p. 25

References
  • Taylor, A. J. (1991) [1965]. The Jewel Tower: Westminster (2nd ed.). London, UK: English Heritage. ISBN 9781850743637.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Turner, Gerald L'E. (1983). Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments. Berkeley, US and Los Angeles, US: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520051607.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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