Article November 29, 1900 ISSUE

Earth's Size Exactly Measured

with contributions from Macdonald

New York World

It has cost the United States just five hundred thousand dollars to find out that the earth we live upon is 7,899 miles tall and 7,926 miles wide, so to speak.

In our school geographies we learned that the earth is a round ball, slightly flattened at the poles. The flattening amounts to thirteen miles and a half for each pole—the polar diameter being twenty-seven miles less than the equatorial diameter. So it isn't such a very flat earth after all.

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