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Offline Double D

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Here's one just for fun.
« on: May 27, 2009, 04:54:41 PM »
COMMERCE STANDARDS
(COMMON WEIGHTS & MEASURES FOR TRAFFIC)

Just to please the topic cop's there is pre 1899 cannon stuf in there.
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2009, 12:34:11 AM »
Thanks, that's the most extensive such list I've seen.  I've had to look up historic systems of measurement before and never ran across anything that complete.  I just spread the wealth to a couple of other boards.

Why the people who put it on the web chose a blue on blue-green color scheme is beyond me, but if you can absorb the info before your eyeballs self-destruct, then it was worthwhile.
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2009, 03:16:22 AM »
I know what you mean about colors.

Hi-lite things with your mouse and the colors will change - often slightly for the better.
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2009, 07:13:40 AM »
I use a book titled:              DICK'S
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                                    PRACTICAL
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                            Domestic requirement

                                        or

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I got it as a gift in 1975+- from Barns & Noble mail order catalogue. A great book to have. An historical reprint.
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2009, 07:41:21 AM »
Quote from: thelionspaw on May 28, 2009, 07:13:40 AM
I use a book titled:              DICK'S
                                 Encyclopedia of
                                    PRACTICAL
                            Receipts and PROCESSES

                                    containing
                              OVER 6400 RECEIPTS
                                    embracing

                          through information, in plain
                        language, applicable to almost
                         every possible industrial and
                            Domestic requirement

                                        or

                          HOW THEY DID IT IN THE
                                     1870's

                              BY WILLIAM B. DICK

        (this edition prepared by Leicester and Harriet Handsfield)

        FUNK & WAGNALLS                                      NEW YORK 

I got it as a gift in 1975+- from Barns & Noble mail order catalogue. A great book to have. An historical reprint.


RICHARD'S RECOMMENDATION, AND MUCH MORE!

Rich, I swear to goodness I was thinking of you today, and I was going to Pm you, asking why you weren't posting more. If you open the site I posted you'll have free access to this book; scroll down and click on the blue highlights and you will get the whole text on that given subject.
On the header of the opening page click on Free Books or Reference, and you can gain access to any of the books that they have listed. I am at this very moment perusing "Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph," and enjoying it immensely. I've never seen this site before, and thanks to you I now know about it, so this is as good a time as any to say: RC, I'm glad you're back! :D
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2009, 10:39:44 AM »
This was interesting:

1 gage = 1.669 inch diameter (1 av.lb. lead ball/sphere)
2 ga. = 1.325 in.dia. (8 av.oz. lead ball/sphere)

Just a difference of .34 inches in diameter cuts the weight of the ball in half. 
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2009, 02:31:34 PM »
35 cu.ft. (Ale or Beer)    =    1 displacement tun    (warships only)

That's a handy piece of knowledge.
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2009, 01:51:54 AM »
Quote from: Soot on May 28, 2009, 02:31:34 PM
35 cu.ft. (Ale or Beer)    =    1 displacement tun    (warships only)

That's a handy piece of knowledge.


I'm glad we have folks on this board that know how to keep our perspective correct!!!!!    ;D
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2009, 02:21:34 AM »
 At least we know water doesn't change much, even after a century...

1 cubic foot = 1000 av. ounces fountain water (Prof. Henry Briggs Yr.1585)
1 cubic foot = 1000 avoirdupois ounces rain water (Mr. John Wybard Yr.1654)
1 cubic foot = 1000 av. ounces fountain water (Prof. Edward Bernard Yr.1688)
1 cubic foot = 1000 avoirdupois ounces rain water (Mr. Thomas Everard Yr.1696)

 Is it still the same today?

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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2009, 03:59:03 AM »
Quote from: Victor3 on May 29, 2009, 02:21:34 AM
At least we know water doesn't change much, even after a century...

1 cubic foot = 1000 av. ounces fountain water (Prof. Henry Briggs Yr.1585)
1 cubic foot = 1000 avoirdupois ounces rain water (Mr. John Wybard Yr.1654)
1 cubic foot = 1000 av. ounces fountain water (Prof. Edward Bernard Yr.1688)
1 cubic foot = 1000 avoirdupois ounces rain water (Mr. Thomas Everard Yr.1696)

 Is it still the same today?

 ;D


I think that, due to devaluation of the ounce av. it now takes 1036 ounces to make a cubic foot.
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2009, 12:55:34 AM »
Quote from: Victor3 on May 29, 2009, 02:21:34 AM
At least we know water doesn't change much, even after a century...

1 cubic foot = 1000 av. ounces fountain water (Prof. Henry Briggs Yr.1585)
1 cubic foot = 1000 avoirdupois ounces rain water (Mr. John Wybard Yr.1654)
1 cubic foot = 1000 av. ounces fountain water (Prof. Edward Bernard Yr.1688)
1 cubic foot = 1000 avoirdupois ounces rain water (Mr. Thomas Everard Yr.1696)

 Is it still the same today?

 ;D


Likely not.  It would have evaporated.   :o
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Re: Here's one just for fun.
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2009, 01:18:05 AM »
 DOH!

 How did my odd sense of humor miss that one when I posted?

 Good one Cat...
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