 | 1825 - 458 pages
...1st May, 1826, a brass measure to be made under the direction of the Treasury, and to contain inn,, avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed In air at the temperature of 93" Fahrenheit, is declared to be the " Imperial standard gallon," and shall be the only standard measure... | |
 | 1823 - 564 pages
...clauses are — (page 3), That the Standard Measure of Capacity, as well for liquids as for dry goods, * shall be the * Gallon containing ten pounds Avoirdupois...distilled * water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's ' Thermometer, the Barometer being at 30 inches. ' And again — (page 6), It... | |
 | Great Britain - 1824 - 826 pages
...hundred and twenty five, tie Standard Measure of Capacity, as well for Liquids as for Goods not measured by Heaped Measure, shall be the Gallon, containing...distilled Water weighed in Air, at the Temperature of Sixty two Degrees of Fahrenheit's Thermometer, the Barometer being at Thirty Inches; and that a Measure... | |
 | 1825 - 490 pages
...subjects of Weights and Measures, that « cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by bras* weight*, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's...thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches, is equal to two hundred and fifty-two grains and four hundred and fifty-eight thousandth parts of a... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - 1825 - 442 pages
...for dry goods not measured by heaped measure, shall be the gallon, containing ten pounds avoirdupoise weight of distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahren» heifs thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches; and that a measure shall be forthwith... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 pages
...measure of capacity be the gallon, under the name of the Imperial standard gallon ; and that it contain ten pounds, avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62°, the barometer being at 30 inches, and that this be the unit, and only standard measure of capacity.... | |
 | Alexander Taylor (of Muthill.) - 1827 - 336 pages
...Capacity, both for liquid and dry goods, is to be the gallon,—a measure made of brass, containing 10 pounds, avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62 degrees of FahrenK belt's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches; and it is declared, that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 pages
...the gallon, .undejr the name of the Imperial standard gaUon; and that it contain, ten pounds, pownds, avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62°, the barometer being at 30 inches, and that this be the unit, and only standard measure of capacity.... | |
 | Esq. James Watson - 1828 - 602 pages
...of weights and mea" sures, 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 ihir" ty inches, is equal to 252 grains and 458,000th parts of a " grain, of which, as aforesaid, the... | |
 | Robert Brunton - 1828 - 222 pages
...which the Standard Troy Pound shall contain 5760. STANDARD GALLON. The Standard Gallon shall contain 10 Pounds Avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches. STANDARD FOR HEAPED MEASURE. The Standard for heaped... | |
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... 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... 
