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Previous Next The best candle and soap tips online! WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 544 THE METRIC SYSTEM.' from its origin to be universal, can only become familiar by use. Like all strange words, these will become familiar by custom, and obtain popular abbreviations. A system which has incorporated with itself so many different series of weights, and such a nomenclature as 'scruples,' 'pennyweights,' 'avoirdupois,' and with no invariable component word, can hardly protest against a nomenclature whose leading characteristic is a short component word with a prefix signifying number. We are all familiar with thermometer, barometer, diameter, gasometer, &c, with telegram, monogram, &c, words formed in the same manner. " After considering every argument for a change of nomenclature, your committee have come to the conclusion that any attempt to conform it to that in present use would lead to confusion of weights and measures, would violate the early learned order and simplicity of metric denomination, and would seriously interfere with that universality of system so essential to international and commercial convenience. "When it is remembered that of the value of our exports and imports,in theyearending June 30,1860, in all $762,000,000, the amount of near $700,000,000 was with nations and their dependencies that have now authorized, or taken the preliminary steps to authorize, the metric system, even denominational uniformity for the use of accountants in such vast transactions assumes an important significance. In words of such universal employment, each word should represent the identical thing intended, and no other, and the law of association familiarizes it. "Your committee unanimously recommend the passage of the bills and joint resolutions appended to this report The metric system is already used in some arts and trades in this country, and is especially adapted to the wants of others. Some of its measures are already manufactured at Bangor, in Maine, to meet an existing demand at home and abroad. The manufacturers of the well-known Fairbanks'scales state: 'For many years we have had a large export demand for our scales with French weights, and the demand and sale are constantly increasing.' Its minute and exact divisions specially adapt it to the use of chemists, apothecaries, the finer operations of the artisan and to all scientific objects. It has always been and is now used in the United States coast survey. Yet in some of the States, owing to the phraseology of their laws, it would be a direct violation of them to use it in the business transactions of the community. It is, therefore, very important to legalize its use, and to give to the people, or that portion of them desiring it, the opportunity for its legal employment, while the knowledge of its characteristics will be thus diffused among men." 2 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT, U.S. 545 Ounces. Drachms. 96 8 3 1 Scruples. Grains. Pound. Ibl = 12 1 =.288 = 5760 ? 24 = 480 3 = 60 9 1 = gr. 20 The imperial standard Troy weight, at present recognized by the British laws, corresponds with the apothecaries' weight in pounds, ounces, and grains, but differs from it in the division of the ounce, which, according to the former scale, contains twenty pennyweights, each weighing twenty-four grains. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. Pound. Ounces. Drachms. Troy grains. ib 1 = 16 = 256 = 7000. oz. 1 = 16 = 437.5 dr. 1 = 27.34375 Relative Value of Troy and Avoirdupois Weights. Pound. Pounds. Ponnd. Oz. Grains. 1 Troy = 0.822857 Avoirdupois =0 13 72.5 1 Avoirdupois = 1.215277 Troy =1 2 280. WINE MEASURE, U. S. Gallon. Pints. Fluidounces. Fluidrachms. Minims. Cubic inches. Cong. 1 = 8 = 128 = 1024 = 61440 = 231. O 1 = 16 = 128 = 7680 = 28.875 f§ 1 = 8 = 480 = 1.8047 f3 1 = Tti 60 = 0.2256 Gallon. IMPERIAL MEASURE. Adopted by all the British College. Minims. = 76800 = 9600 = 480 = 60 Pints. Fluidounces. Fluidrachms. 160 20 = 1280 = 160 = 8 = 1 = Relative Value of Apothecaries' and Imperial Measures. APOTHECARIES' MEASURE. 1 gallon = 1 pint = 1 fluidounce = 1 fluidrachm = 1 minim = IMPERIAL MEASURE. 1 gallon = 1 pint = 1 fluidounce = 1 fluidrachm = 1 minim = 35 IMPERIAL MEASURE. Pints. Fluidozs. Flnidrms. Minims. 6 13 2 23 16 5 18 1 0 20 1 2.5 1.04 APOTHECARIES' MEASURE. Gallon. Pints. Fluidoz. Fluidrms. Minima 9 3 5 1 7 8 38 41 58 0.96 5-46 WEIGHTS AKD MEASURES. Relative Value of Weights and Measures in Distilled Water at 60° Fahr. 1. Value of Apothecaries' Weight in Apothecaries' Measure. Pints. 0 0 0 0 0 Fluidoz. 12 1 0 0 0 Fluidr. 5 0 1 0 0 Minim*. 7.2338 25.0020 3.2002 21.0667 1.0533 pound ounce drachm scruple grain 0.7900031 pints = 1.0533376 fluidounces = 1.0533376 fluidrachms = 2. Value of Apothecaries' Measure in Apothecaries' Weight. Pounds. Oz. Dr. Sc. Gr. Grains. 8.88 = 58328.886 11.11 = 7291.1107 15.69 = 455.6944 16.96 = 56.9618 1.9493 Fluidozs. Fluidrms. Minims. 15 2 53.3622 0 7 40.8351 gallon = 10.12654270 pounds = 10 1 4 0 pint = 1.26581783 pounds =13 11 fiuidounce = 0.94036332 ounces =0071 fluidrachm = 0.94936332 drms. =0003 minim = 0.94936332 grains = 3. Value of Avoirdupois Weight in Apothecaries' Measure. Pints. 1 pound = 0.9600732 pints = 0 1 ounce = 0.9600732 fluidounces = 0 TABLES SHOWING THE RELATIVE VALUES OP FRENCH AND ENGLISH WEIO AND MEASURES, &c. 4. Value of Apothecaries' Measure in Avoirdupois Weight. 1 gallon = 8.33269800 pounds. 1 pint = 1.04158725 pounds. 1 fluidounee = 1.04158725 ounces. 5. Value of Imperial Measure in Apothecaries' and Avoirdupois Weights. Imperial Measure. Apothecaries' Weight. Avoirdupois Weight. Grains. Cubic inches. 1 gallon = 12 ft 1 § 6 3 2 9 0 gr. = 10 tt 0 g =70,000 =277.27384 pint =1613 10 =14= 8,750 = 34.65923 Previous Next
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