Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

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Product of three Linear Dimensions (proportional to cube of similar sides). =0-2500=0.02883320-75000-0624996 Cubic foot 16 031250-0260415 130-81250-0677079 0:3750=0.0312498 = 0.8750=0.0729162 70-4375-0.0364581 1층 =0.9375-0-0781245 16 = 0.5000=0.041666416=1 =0.0833328 16 1. In a right-angled triangle the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides = the square of the hypothenuse less the square of one side = the square of the third side. 2. The diameter of a circle × 3·1416 = the circumference. 3. The circumference of a circle × 0.31831 = the diameter. 4. Given a chord and versed sine to find the diameter of the circle. Divide the square of half the chord by the versed sine, and add the versed sine to the product = the diameter. 66 1,728 cubic ins. yard =27 cubic ft. = 46,656 " 4-8125 " 8,316 " 1-2438 “ Gallon (wine) = = 2,150 231 " Barrel Bushel Ton = 2240 lbs. avoirdupois. 1 gallon of water weighs 58,328-8 grains troy- 10.126 lbs. troy.

Cylindrical inches × 0004546 = cubic feet.

Cubic “ feet X.02909 " = yards. inches X 00058 " = feet. " feet X 03704 " = yards. " feet X 7.48 = U. States gallon. " inches X 004329 " " = " " = inches X 0034 “ “ = Cylindrical feet X 5.874 "

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