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cubic inches, square miles. here's a quiz 4 you
woodsrunner
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Everyone is having fun with math it seems, so I have a quiz to test your knowledge of history in addition to weights and measures.
I have an blacksmiths anvil. It's at least 110 years old. It has two markings on it. "London" and "112". Your question is, How much does it weigh?
I'll post the answer tomorrow if someone doesn't get it first.
Woods
I have an blacksmiths anvil. It's at least 110 years old. It has two markings on it. "London" and "112". Your question is, How much does it weigh?
I'll post the answer tomorrow if someone doesn't get it first.
Woods
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Clouder..
It's merely coincidence that it's marked 112.
It is measured in hundred weights.
A hundred weight is 112 pounds.
But, When something is marked in hudredweights you have to be able to decode the number.
First digit means 1 full hundredweight= 112lbs
Second digit means quarters of a hundredweight= 28lbs
Third digit is actual pounds = 2lbs
Add them up and you get 142lbs.
When I bought this thing over 20 years ago I was told it was 150lbs. I was baffled until an Englishman explained it too me. I actually stuck it on a scale at one point and it weighed 140.5 lbs. The old English machinist taught me alot about the old ways of machine shops. According to him the brittish iron industry stuck with this odd system of measurment until WW1.
Just thought it would make a fun question for everyone.
Woods
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...112 pounds = 1 hundredweight 364 pounds = 1 sack 2240 pounds = 1 ton 2 stones = 1 quarter 4 quarters = 1 hundredweight 20 hundredweight = 1 ton...
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=hundredweight&sp-a=000700c0-sp00000000
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Edited by - RugerNiner on 09/18/2002 12:47:05
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One hundredweight is 112 pounds.
364 pounds is one sack.
Been there, done that.
Clouder..
woodsrunner,
Where is the other 1.5 pounds the anvil is missing. Was it beaten off?
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Edited by - RugerNiner on 09/18/2002 14:49:49
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Clouder..
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Glyn
That's a pretty interesting link you put up there, I'll have to check that out some more. As for the missing pound and a half, I think it was just cast into that particular sized anvil. I would imagine there could be a couple pounds of variation from casting to casting. That or, the scale I used was a piece of crap shipping scale in a place I used to work, the scale itself could have been wrong.
Woods
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It's a good thing some measurements change or the saying, I'd walk 3424.9 cubits for a Camel would have sounded silly.