 ... 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
 | Frederick Emerson - 1834 - 300 pages
...Gallonwas established, as well for liquids as for dry substances. The Imperial gallon must contain " 10 pounds, Avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed...of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches." This quantity of water will be found to measure 277T2s™o cubic inches. The... | |
 | James Prinsep - 1834 - 120 pages
...gallons of England, with their multiples and divisions. This imperial gallon was made to contain 10 Ihs. avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62° Farht., the harometer standing at 30 inches. It has a capacity therefore of 277 .274 cuhic inches.... | |
 | James Prinsep - 1834 - 310 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° Farht., the barometer standing atiO inches. It has a capacity therefore of 277.274 cubic inches. Some... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 862 pages
...standard measure of capacity, as well for liquids as for dry goods not measured by neaped measure, at or near sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches ; and a measure... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1835 - 938 pages
...exactness. The standard gallon is determined by the act to be such measure as shall contain 10 Ibs. avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62°. of Fahr., the barometer being at 30 inches, to be used as well for wine, beer, ale, spirits, and all sorts... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 806 pages
...dry goods, that are not measured by a heaped measure, shall be the gallon, containing ten pounds of avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62 degrees, of Farenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at SO inches, and which is declared to be... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...gallon, containing 10 Ibs. avoirdupois weight (7000 grains =1 Ib.) of distilled water, weighed in the air at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer ; the barometer being at 30 inches. The capacity of this gallon is 277.274 cubick inches. From the most careful experiments, it appears... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 360 pages
...in the year, of a succulent and yet mealy gallon established, which must contain precisely 10 Ibs. avoirdupois weight, of distilled water weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Farenheit thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches. By this Act the English pound... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 382 pages
...in the year, of a succulent and yet mealy gallon established, which must contain precisely 10 Ibs. avoirdupois weight, of distilled water weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Farenheit thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches. By this Act the English pound... | |
 | 1838 - 590 pages
...gallon, containing 10 Ibs. avoirdupoise weight (7000 grains = 1 Ib.) of distilled water, weighed in the air at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer ; the barometer being at 30 inches. The capacity of this gallon is 277.274 cvibic inches. From the most careful experiments, it appears... | |
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