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Standardsfor the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s the inch has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 25.4 mm.

The inch is a commonly used customary unit of length in the United States,[7] Canada,[8][9] and the United Kingdom.[10] For the United Kingdom, guidance on public sector use states that, since 1 October 1995, without time limit, the inch (along with the foot) is to be used as a primary unit for road signs and related measurements of distance (with the possible exception of clearance heights and widths)[11] and may continue to be used as a secondary or supplementary indication following a metric measurement for other purposes.[10]

Inches are used for display screens (e.g. televisions and computer monitors) worldwide. It is the official Japanese standard for electronic parts, especially display screens, and is the industry standard throughout continental Europe for display screens (Germany being one of few countries to supplement it with centimetres in most stores[12]).

The earliest known reference to the inch in England is from the Laws of thelberht dating to the early 7th century, surviving in a single manuscript, the Textus Roffensis from 1120.[19] Paragraph LXVII sets out the fine for wounds of various depths: one inch, one shilling; two inches, two shillings, etc.[m]

An Anglo-Saxon unit of length was the barleycorn. After 1066, 1 inch was equal to 3 barleycorns, which continued to be its legal definition for several centuries, with the barleycorn being the base unit.[22] One of the earliest such definitions is that of 1324, where the legal definition of the inch was set out in a statute of Edward II of England, defining it as "three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end, lengthwise".[22]

Similar definitions are recorded in both English and Welsh medieval law tracts.[23] One, dating from the first half of the 10th century, is contained in the Laws of Hywel Dda which superseded those of Dyfnwal, an even earlier definition of the inch in Wales. Both definitions, as recorded in Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales (vol i., pp. 184, 187, 189), are that "three lengths of a barleycorn is the inch".[24]

King David I of Scotland in his Assize of Weights and Measures (c. 1150) is said to have defined the Scottish inch as the width of an average man's thumb at the base of the nail, even including the requirement to calculate the average of a small, a medium, and a large man's measures.[25] However, the oldest surviving manuscripts date from the early 14th century and appear to have been altered with the inclusion of newer material.[26]

In 1814, Charles Butler, a mathematics teacher at Cheam School, recorded the old legal definition of the inch to be "three grains of sound ripe barley being taken out the middle of the ear, well dried, and laid end to end in a row", and placed the barleycorn, not the inch, as the base unit of the English Long Measure system, from which all other units were derived.[27] John Bouvier similarly recorded in his 1843 law dictionary that the barleycorn was the fundamental measure.[28] Butler observed, however, that "[a]s the length of the barley-corn cannot be fixed, so the inch according to this method will be uncertain", noting that a standard inch measure was now [i.e. by 1843] kept in the Exchequer chamber, Guildhall, and that was the legal definition of the inch.[27]

This was a point also made by George Long in his 1842 Penny Cyclopdia, observing that standard measures had since surpassed the barleycorn definition of the inch, and that to recover the inch measure from its original definition, in case the standard measure were destroyed, would involve the measurement of large numbers of barleycorns and taking their average lengths. He noted that this process would not perfectly recover the standard, since it might introduce errors of anywhere between one hundredth and one tenth of an inch in the definition of a yard.[29]

Before the adoption of the international yard and pound, various definitions were in use. In the United Kingdom and most countries of the British Commonwealth, the inch was defined in terms of the Imperial Standard Yard. The United States adopted the conversion factor 1 metre = 39.37 inches by an act in 1866.[30] In 1893, Mendenhall ordered the physical realization of the inch to be based on the international prototype metres numbers 21 and 27, which had been received from the CGPM, together with the previously adopted conversion factor.[31]

As a result of the definitions above, the U.S. inch was effectively defined as 25.4000508 mm (with a reference temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit) and the UK inch at 25.399977 mm (with a reference temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit). When Carl Edvard Johansson started manufacturing gauge blocks in inch sizes in 1912, Johansson's compromise was to manufacture gauge blocks with a nominal size of 25.4mm, with a reference temperature of 20 degrees Celsius, accurate to within a few parts per million of both official definitions. Because Johansson's blocks were so popular, his blocks became the de facto standard for manufacturers internationally,[32][33] with other manufacturers of gauge blocks following Johansson's definition by producing blocks designed to be equivalent to his.[34]

In 1930, the British Standards Institution adopted an inch of exactly 25.4 mm. The American Standards Association followed suit in 1933. By 1935, industry in 16 countries had adopted the "industrial inch" as it came to be known,[35][36] effectively endorsing Johansson's pragmatic choice of conversion ratio.[32]

In 1946, the Commonwealth Science Congress recommended a yard of exactly 0.9144 metres for adoption throughout the British Commonwealth. This was adopted by Canada in 1951;[37][38] the United States on 1 July 1959;[39][40][41] Australia in 1961,[42] effective 1 January 1964;[43] and the United Kingdom in 1963,[44] effective on 1 January 1964.[45] The new standards gave an inch of exactly 25.4 mm, 1.7 millionths of an inch longer than the old imperial inch and 2 millionths of an inch shorter than the old US inch.[46][47]

In 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced that the U.S. survey foot would "be phased out" on 1 January 2023 and be superseded by the international foot (also known as the foot) equal to 0.3048 metres exactly, for all further applications.[48] This implies that the survey inch was replaced by the international inch.

Before the adoption of the metric system, several European countries had customary units whose name translates into "inch". The French pouce measured roughly 27.0 mm, at least when applied to describe the calibre of artillery pieces. The Amsterdam foot (voet) consisted of 11 Amsterdam inches (duim). The Amsterdam foot is about 8% shorter than an English foot.[49]

Apple has determined that, in a limited number of older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro units, the battery may overheat and pose a fire safety risk. Affected units were sold primarily between September 2015 and February 2017 and product eligibility is determined by the product serial number.

First check to see which 15-inch MacBook Pro you have. Choose About This Mac from the Apple menu () in the upper-left corner of your screen. Confirm your model is "MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)." If you have that model, enter your computer's serial number below to see if it is eligible for this program.

Choose one of the service options below to have your battery replaced. Your MacBook Pro will be examined prior to any service to verify that it is eligible for this program. Service may take 3-5 days.

The majority of the massive mounting and the steel for the dome was built by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco. The vital statistics of the mounting are truly impressive. The base is triangular, 15 feet by 9 feet in two parts, each of which weighs 3 1/2 tons. The polar axis, about which the telescope turns as it tracks the stars, is 15 feet long, and weight 4 1/2 tons despite being hollow. The cast-iron fork in which the telescope tube rides weighs 5 tons.

In order to move the telescope smoothly during long exposures and to accurately point it to almost any part of the sky, a new system had to be developed to maneuver the 22 tons of moving parts. Over the previous 30 years, astronomers had tried building telescope mounts with a trough in which mercury was used to float most of the weight of the telescope. This system had not always been successful, but Hale and Ritchey felt they could make it work on the 60-inch. A steel float, 10 feet in diameter, and weighing 4 tons, was fitted to the polar axis. With a 1/8-inch space between the trough and float filled with 650 pounds of mercury, over 21 1/2 tons of the telescope is supported, with just five percent of the weight left to be taken up by the bearings.

Even after the mounting was shipped, much work remained to be done by the Mount Wilson shops. The gear that would drive the telescope while it tracked the object under study would need to have the teeth cut in it. Cutting 1080 teeth in a gear 10 feet in diameter and weighing 2 tons is a big enough task, but any error would cause improper tracking of the object under study. Therefore, the cutting process had to be carried out with almost the precision of mirror-making. The 6-foot-tall clock drive mechanism, patterned after that of the Yerkes 40-inch refractor, also had to be built and installed. Many other parts, such as motors and mirror supports, were also built by the Mount Wilson staff.

The Observatory then tested a new truck it had just received. In what might be considered state-of-the-art technology in 1907, this truck carried a generator which produced electricity for four electric motors, one on each wheel. The front and rear wheels could be steered independently in order to negotiate the sharp turns in the mountain road. Though designed for 5-ton loads, the truck proved inadequate and was rebuilt by the Mount Wilson shops. It could then take 3-ton loads to the summit, but four mules had to be added to get the 5-ton loads up the steepest slopes.

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