 ... 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
 | George Richardson Porter - 1838 - 396 pages
...of them a measure, called an Imperial Gallon, was established. This gallon was declared to contain ten 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. The content of the Imperial... | |
 | 1839 - 568 pages
...Gallon was 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 277.274 cubic inches. The same... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - 1839 - 300 pages
...Gallon was 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 277-^^ cubic inches. The same... | |
 | 1839 - 566 pages
...Gallon was 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 277.274 cubic inches. The same... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - 1840 - 764 pages
...standard measure of capacity, as well for liquids as for dry goods, not measured by heaped measure, shall be the gallon, containing ten pounds avoirdupois...distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches; and a measure made of brass,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 338 pages
...measure of capacity. It must contain 10 Ibs. avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air of the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, or 277,274 cubic inches. The imperial gallon is about £ larger than the old wine gallon, and ,fa less... | |
 | James Prinsep - 1840 - 312 pages
...gallons of England, with their multiples and divisions. This imperial gallon was made to contain 10 tbs. avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62e Farht. the harometer standing at 30 inches. It has a capacity therefore of 277.274 cubic inches.... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1842 - 1364 pages
...the standard measure of capacity, and is directed to be made such as to contain 10 Ibs. avoirdupois of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature...of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches, or to contain 277 cubic inches, and 274 thousandth parts of a cubic inch ; consequently,... | |
 | 1843 - 488 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... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - 1844 - 258 pages
...peck. 4 pecks make 1 bushel. 4 bushels make 1 coom. 2 cooms make 1 quarter. The gallon "contains 10 Ib. avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in...Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches." This is equivalent to 277.274 cubic inches. TIME MEASURE. 60 seconds (sec.) make 1 minute. min. 60... | |
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