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Lock and Dam No. 19 is a lock and dam located on the Upper Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa. In 1978, the Keokuk Lock and Dam was listed in the National Register of Historic Places , #78001234. In 2004, the facility was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Lock and Dam No. 19 Historic District, #04000179 covering 1,605 acres ...
A hogshead of brandy was approximately equal to 56–61 gallons (0.255–0.277 m 3). [ citation needed ] Eventually, a hogshead of wine came to be 52.5 imperial gallons (238.669725 L ) (63 US gallons), while a hogshead of beer or ale came to be 54 gallons (249.5421 L with the pre-1824 beer and ale gallon, or 245.48886 L with the imperial gallon).
The unit of measurement varies by region: a United States liquid tablespoon is approximately 14·8mL (exactly 1 ⁄ 2 US fluid ounce; about 0·52 imperial fluid ounce), a British tablespoon is approximately 14·2mL (exactly 1 ⁄ 2 imperial fluid ounce; about 0·48 US fluid ounce), an international metric tablespoon is exactly 15mL (about 0·53 ...
The system can be traced back to the measuring systems of the Hindus [18]: B-9 and the ancient Egyptians, who subdivided the hekat (about 4.8 litres) into parts of 1 ⁄ 2, 1 ⁄ 4, 1 ⁄ 8, 1 ⁄ 16, 1 ⁄ 32, and 1 ⁄ 64 (1 ro, or mouthful, or about 14.5 ml), [19] and the hin similarly down to 1 ⁄ 32 (1 ro) using hieratic notation, [20] as ...
1 2 handfuls = 1 wineglass wineglass (glassful) wgf., [19] 2 fluid ounces or 60 mL, [10] w-gl. [25]: 12 2 2 wineglasses = 1 teacup teacup tcf. [19] 4 fluid ounces [10] 4 2 teacups = 1 coffeecup coffeecup (tumbler, kitchencup) 8 fluid ounces [15] 8 2 coffeecups = 1 jug jug (pint) 16 2 jugfuls = 1 pitcher pitcher (quart) ptch. 32 2 pitchers = 1 ...
As a unit of Apothecary measure, the dessert-spoon was an unofficial but widely used unit of fluid measure equal to two fluid drams, or 1 / 4 fluid ounce. [4] However, even when approximated, its use was discouraged: "Inasmuch as spoons vary greatly in capacity, and from their form are unfit for use in the dosage of medicine, it is ...
1 UK pinch = 1 / 16 UK tablespoon = 1 / 8 UK dessert spoon = 1 / 4 UK teaspoon = 1 / 2 UK salt spoon: ≈ 0·06: US customary tablespoon: ≈ 0·09: US customary dessert spoon: ≈ 0·18: US customary teaspoon: ≈ 0·36: US customary coffee spoon ≈ 0·72: US customary salt spoon ≈ 1·44: US customary dashes ...
The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to 240 millilitres (legal cup), but 250 ml is also used depending on the ...