 Gallon., containing Ten Pounds Avoirdupois Weight of distilled Water weighed in Air, at the Temperature of Sixty two Degrees of Fahrenheit's Thermometer, the Barometer being at...  The merchants' handbook - Page 110by William Alfred BROWNE - 1872 - 278 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 pages
...of capacity be the gallon, under the name of the Imperial standard gallon ; and that it contain ten pounds, avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62°, the barometer being at 30 inches, and that this be the unit, and only standard measure of capacity.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 pages
...the gallon, .undejr the name of the Imperial standard gaUon; and that it contain, ten pounds, pownds, avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62°, the barometer being at 30 inches, and that this be the unit, and only standard measure of capacity.... | |
 | Robert Brunton - 1828 - 222 pages
...which the Standard Troy Pound shall contain 5760. STANDARD GALLON. The Standard Gallon shall contain 10 Pounds Avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches. STANDARD FOR HEAPED MEASURE. The Standard for heaped... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1828 - 410 pages
...wherein the standard measure for liquids is defined, for the gallon, to contain "10 pounds, avoirdupoise weight, of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer :" so that you will perceive, from these remarks, the imperial gallon weighs... | |
 | Esq. James Watson - 1828 - 602 pages
...well for liquids as for dry goods not measured by heaped measure, shall be the gallon, containing ten pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches; and that n measure... | |
 | 1863 - 986 pages
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 | Alexander Ingram - 1830 - 458 pages
...of parliament, and the only legal standard for measuring both liquid and dry goods is declared to be the imperial gallon, containing 10 pounds avoirdupois...weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches ; each avoirdupois pound containing 7000... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 614 pages
...well for liquids as for dry goods not measured by heap measure, shall be THE GALLON, containing ten pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled water (weighed in air at the temperature of 02° Fabr., barometer at 30 in.), and such measure shall he the imperial standard gallon, and shall... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 594 pages
...for dry goods not measured by heap measure, shall be THE GALLON, containing ten pounds avoir, dupois weight of distilled water (weighed in air at the temperature of 62° Fahr., barometer at 30 in.), and such measure shall be the imperial standard gallon, and shall be the... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1831 - 508 pages
...as well for liquids as dry goods not measured liv heaped measure. shall he the gallon, containing 1O pounds 'avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, &c. &c." Not feeling satisfied, I then... | |
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