The Builder's and Contractor's Price-book

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John Weale, 1859
 

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Σελίδα 244 - Troy Weight 24 grains = 1 pennyweight. 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.
Σελίδα 280 - Nora.—For each balf brick added to the thickness of the wall, add seven bricks. A bricklayer's hod measuring 1 ft. 4 in. X 9 in. X 9 in., equals 1,296 inches in capacity, and will contain 20 bricks. A load of mortar measures 1 cubic yard, or 27 cubic feet; requires 1 cubic yard of sand, and 9 bushels of lime, and will fill 30 hods. Plasterers...
Σελίδα 246 - French weights and measures would be " a gramme is the weight of a cubic centimetre of distilled water, at 4 deg. C., weighed at Paris.

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