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The corn gallon, or Winchester gallon, of about 268.8 cubic inches (≈ 4.405 L), The wine gallon, or Queen Anne's gallon, which was 231 cubic inches [54] (≈ 3.785 L), and; The ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (≈ 4.622 L). The corn or dry gallon is used
This made a Wine Gallon "Reputed Pint" equivalent to 2 ⁄ 3 US liquid pint (10.66 US fluid oz.), 11.09 imp. oz, or 315 mL. Although the Imperial system was introduced in 1824, bottles of ale or beer were still sold in Reputed Pints (13.3 imperial oz) but were now based on the Imperial gallon (based on the British Ale Gallon).
About 0.00360465 imperial gallons; About 0.00432900 US gallons (1.0 gallon equals 231 cu in exactly [3 in × 7 in × 11 in]) About 0.0001030715 barrels of crude oil (1.0 barrel equals 42 gallons, by definition, or 9,702 cu in) Exactly 0.016387064 liters (1.0 liter is about 61.0237 cubic inches)
1.0 imp bsh (36 L; 8.0 imp gal; 8.3 US dry gal) impbu imp bu imperial gallon: impgal imp gal 4.54609 litres by definition, also 4 imp qt or 8 imp pt or 160 imp fl oz Allows triple output units. See: full list. 1.0 imp gal (4.5 L; 1.2 US gal) impgal l; impgal L; impgal USgal; impgal U.S.gal; impgal USdrygal; impgal U.S.drygal; imperial quart: impqt
In 1824, these units were replaced with a single system based on the imperial gallon. [a] Originally defined as the volume of 10 pounds (4.54 kg) of distilled water (under certain conditions), [b] then redefined by the Weights and Measures Act 1985 to be exactly 4.546 09 L (277.4 cu in), the imperial gallon is close in size to the old ale gallon.
Metric prefixes; Text Symbol Factor or; yotta Y 10 24: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: zetta Z 10 21: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: exa E 10 18: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000: peta P 10 15: 1 000 000 000 000 000: tera T
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Both the 42-US-gallon (159 L) barrels (based on the old English wine measure), the tierce (159 litres) and the 40-US-gallon (150 L) whiskey barrels were used. Also, 45-US-gallon (170 L) barrels were in common use. The 40 gallon whiskey barrel was the most common size used by early oil producers, since they were readily available at the time.