A one-sixty-fourth of an inch here, a one-one hundredth of an inch there. From Wordnik.com. [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News] Reference
In McCloud, Calif., for instance, the town agreed to a 50-year-agreement that saw Nestle pay about one-sixty-fourth of a cent for a gallon of water and selling it for more than. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News Transcript Homepage RSS] Reference
The carbon filament, which constitutes the only new part of the combination of the second claim of that patent, differs from the earlier carbon burners of Sawyer and Man, only in having a diameter of one-sixty-fourth of an inch or less, whereas the burners of Sawyer and Man had a diameter of one-thirty-second of an inch or more. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1] Reference
For this reason, the use of carbon filaments, one-sixty-fourth of an inch in diameter or less, instead of carbon burners one-thirty-second of an inch in diameter or more, not only worked an enormous economy in conductors, but also necessitated a great change in generators, and did both according to a philosophy, which Edison was the first to know, and which is stated in this paragraph in its simplest form and aspect, and which lies at the foundation of the incandescent electric lighting of the world. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1] Reference
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