Sentence examples for the gramme from inspiring English sources

Dubbed the Gramme dynamo, this device contributed much to the general acceptance of electric power.

In the end, I decided to start where it began for me: my favourite track on my first and still favourite Fall album, 1980's Grotesque (After the Gramme).

The growth of knowledge of electricity from Alessandro Volta's original electric cell of 1800 through the experiments of Michael Faraday and others, culminating in 1872 in the Gramme dynamo and electric motor (named after the Belgian Z.T. Gramme)—led to the development of electrical and electronics engineering.

Notwithstanding that the definition of the base unit of mass was the gramme (alternatively "gravet"), this new, practical realisation would ultimately become the base unit of mass.

Originally the kilogramme, defined as being one pinte (later renamed the litre) of water at the melting point of ice, was called the grave; the gramme being an alternative name for a thousandth of a grave.

On 7 April 1795, the gramme, upon which the kilogram is based, was decreed to be equal to "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube of one hundredth of a metre, and at the temperature of the melting ice".

The law of 7 April 1795 defined the terms gramme and kilogramme, which replaced the former terms gravet (correctly milligrave) and grave, and on 22 June 1799, after Pierre Méchain and Jean-Baptiste Delambre completed the meridian survey, the definitive standards, the mètre des Archives and the kilogramme des Archives were deposited in the Archives nationales.

In the decree of 1795, the term gramme thus replaced gravet, and kilogramme replaced grave.

By the early 1870s Gramme had developed several other dynamos, one of which was reversible and could be used as an electric motor.

With the beginning of metrication, some countries standardized their apothecaries' pound to an easily remembered multiple of the French gramme.

However, the company is likely to be criticised for increasing the price per gramme of products under the veil of a healthy eating drive.