 ... 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
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1849 - 388 pages
...in which case the measure to contain a gallon must be of a capacity to hold 10 pounds, avairdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer'^eing at 30 inches. For a standard of weights, the law of England makes the... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1850 - 368 pages
...in which case the measure to contain a gallon must be of a capacity to hold 10 pounds, avairdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches. The Act of Parliament which brought the standards of... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 374 pages
...determined by weight, in which case the measure to contain a gallon must be of a capacity to hold 10 pounds, avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches. For a standard of weights, the law of England makes the... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1852 - 790 pages
...liquids ля for dry goods not measured by heaped measure, shall be the gullvn, containing 10 Ibs. avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air...the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, (he barometer beinç? at 30 inches; and such measure shall be the Imperial standard gallon (containing... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Lee - 1853 - 288 pages
...of length, in the following manner: According to the act, the imperial standard gallon contains 10 pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit's Thermometer, the Barometer being at 30 inches. The pound avoirdupois contains 7,000 troy... | |
 | Robert Slater - 1855 - 156 pages
...this scientific maxim, the law declares, that 10 1bs. Avoirdupois shall be the standard of one gallon of distilled water, " weighed in air at the temperature...of " Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being 30 inches." The Avoirdupois pound, therefore, becomes the index of capacity and extension as well as... | |
 | Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse - 1856 - 232 pages
...liquids as for dry goods, not measured by heaped * measure, shall be the gallon, containing 10 Ibs. avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit-s thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches ; and such brass measure shall be " the... | |
 | Andrew Carrick (accountant.) - 1856 - 34 pages
...of capacity, as well for liquids as for dry goods, is declared to be the gallon, containing 10 Ibs, avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, and is equal to 277.274 cubic inches. From this measure, which... | |
 | William Littell Tizard - 1857 - 594 pages
...establishing uniformity of weights and measures," which provides, that *' the gallon shall contain ten pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed...thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches ;" and fixes the cubic inch at 252-458 grains, at the same atmospheric pressure and temperature, the pound... | |
 | James Prinsep - 1858 - 660 pages
...gallons of England, with their multiples and divisions. This imperial gallon was made to contain 10 Ibs. avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62° Far., the barometer standing at 30 inches. It has a capacity, therefore, of 277.274 cubic inches. Some... | |
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