 | James Gallier - Building - 1836 - 228 pages
...well for liquids as for dry goods not measured by heaped measure, should be the gallon 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, to be used as... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 402 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... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 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 in air, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches." This quantity of water will be found... | |
 | 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 in air, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches." This quantity of water will be found... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 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 in air, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches." This quantity of water will be found... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - 1840 - 302 pages
...Gallonwas established, as well for liquids as for dry substances. The Imperial gallon must contain "10 pounds, Avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches." This quantity of water will be found... | |
 | James Prinsep - Coins - 1840 - 312 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 at 30 inches. It has a capacity therefore of 277-274 cubic inches. Some... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...as for )' goods, not measured by heaped measure, shall be the gallon, containing ten pounds wdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches; and a measure Je of brass,... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1842 - 296 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 in air, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer standing at 30 inches." This quantity of water .will be... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - 1844 - 258 pages
...V 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 air at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches." This is equivalent to 277.274 cubic... | |
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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 
