In article <5muul2$c38$1 at pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, smaw at gpu4.srv.ualberta.ca
says...
>>A working contact for Pt-Ir wire should be A-M Systems Inc of Carlsborg,
>WA, USA. (contact at http://www.a-msystems.com, or on e-mail at
>sales at a-msystems.com)
>>Sean
>Why don't you try the "Bureau international des poids et mesures" in Sevres
France. They have this exactly one meter long Pt-Ir rod which is no longer
the definition of one meter. Maybe they don't need it anymore. As you know
one meter is now the distance traveled by energy in vacuum in a time
which is roughtly 1/3.10^8 s (I do not have the exact figure at hand).
Pascal Bochet
