The pendulum spring of a watch, which governs the vibrations of the balance, costs at the retail price two pence, and weighs fifteen one-hundredths of a grain, whilst the retail price of a pound of the best iron, the raw material out of which fifty thousand such springs are made, is exactly the same sum of two pence.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage
The tip of the loop is then immersed in nitric acid and dissolved in the silver, leaving an exquisitely fine platinum wire a few hundredths of an inch in length and having a resistance of about thirty ohms.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming
"Somehow our family seems to be made up of odd hundredths.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch