 ... 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...  the farmers magazine - Page 1381823Full view - About this book
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 | Peter Nicholson - 1899 - 848 pages
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 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1866 - 544 pages
...gas by meter, the cubic foot, containing 62-321 pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled or rain-water weighed in air at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's...thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches." And had the Act done no more than this it had conferred an important boon on the gas companies, and on... | |
 | 1839 - 714 pages
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 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 1030 pages
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 | 1828 - 258 pages
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 | Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly - 1854 - 792 pages
...standard measure of capacity for liquids and drv goods was declared to be the gallon containing ten Ibs. avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches. This imperial gallon was declared to be the unit and... | |
 | Royal Society of South Australia - 1887 - 1012 pages
...The only legal unit for the sale of gas by meter shall be the cubic foot, containing 62'321 pounds weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62° Par., the barometer being at 30 in." And the next clause provides for the construction of this and... | |
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