 | James Gray - 1854 - 120 Seiten
...which all weights are taken ; it contains 5760 grains, each grain being the 5 ,,- s ! 3 ;, в part of a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air, by brass weights, at the temperature of 62° of Fah. thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches. By this weight are weighed gold, silver, jewels,... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1856 - 556 Seiten
...by the commissioners appointed by his 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... | |
 | Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse - 1856 - 232 Seiten
...latitude of London in a vacuum at the level of the sea is 39-1393 inches of the standard ; and that the cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights, at 62° of Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252-458 grains, according to the... | |
 | English cookery book - 1859 - 578 Seiten
...directs that it shall be recovered by reference to the weight of a cubic inch of water ; it having been ascertained that a cubic inch of distilled water,...in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit, and the baroineter at thirty inches, is equal to 252'45S grains ; and as the standard... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 798 Seiten
...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, a Sicilian... | |
 | William Barnes - 1859 - 220 Seiten
...148 pound weight shall be a certain quantity more than 22 times the weight of a cubic inch of rain water, weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit. The insufficiency of weight alone, and the help afforded to it by measure, are shown by... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1860 - 540 Seiten
...by the commissioners appointed by his 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... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1863 - 162 Seiten
...said avoirdupois ounce 1 dram. 5. — Standard pound Troy if lost, &c., to be restored by reference to 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, the weight of which is equal to 252 grains... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1863 - 540 Seiten
...pound sterling ? Such a part of an ounce of gold. What is an ounce ? Such a part of the weight of " a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches."* What is an inch ? A measure bearing... | |
 | Stephen Parkinson - 1863 - 408 Seiten
...forces. The standard of weight in England is the pound Troy, consisting of 5760 grains; and it is stated that a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights at 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, weighs 252'458 such grains: — the pound Avoirdupois... | |
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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... 
