 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 898 pages
...above standard. The pound troy, from the standard of 1758, is also defined by determining that the cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights, at 62°, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252.458 grains (the pound being 5,760 grains).... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 874 pages
...above standard. The pound troy, from the standard of 1758, is also defined by determining that the cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights, at 62°, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252.458 grains (the pound being 5,760 grains).... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 978 pages
...of this country is the grain, which i? ordered by Act of Parliament, б Geo. IV. с, 74, to be euch that 'a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in...temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to two hundred and fifty-two grains, and 1 i* hundred and... | |
 | George William Cox - Art - 1867 - 1002 pages
...weight of this country is the grain, which is ordered by Act of Parliament, 5 Geo. IV. c. 74, to be such that 'a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in...temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to two hundred and fifty-two grains, and four hundred and... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 974 pages
...ordered by Act of Parliament, б Geo. IV. с. 74. t.) be such that 'a cubic inch of distilled e.it-r, weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, is «quäl to two hundred and fifty-two grains, and 'nor handrail... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - Measurement - 1872 - 210 pages
...explicitly declared to have been " ascertained by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, &c., that a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of FAHRENHEIT'S thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches, is equal to two... | |
 | FREDERICK A.P. BERNARD, S.T.D., I.I.D., - 1872 - 200 pages
...explicitly declared to have been " ascertained by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, &c., that a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of FAHRENHEIT'S thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches, is equal to two... | |
 | William Alfred BROWNE - Money - 1872 - 318 pages
...pound if lost might be restored by reference to the weight of a cubic inch of distilled water, which weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheitis thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252-458 grains, while the standard... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1873 - 836 pages
...the standard. The standard grain, prescribed by act of parliament in the reign of George IV., is such that " a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252*458 grains." AVOLA (anc.... | |
 | Samuel Griffiths - Iron industry and trade - 1873 - 592 pages
...1210 square yards, an Acre, 4840 square yards, or ICO square perches, poles, or rods. STANDARD POUND. A Cubic Inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit, the barometer being at' 30 inches, is equal to 252 grains and 458 thousandth parts of a... | |
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Majesty to inquire into the subject of weights and measures, that a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252 grains, and... 
