> Why is a gallon different over here?
> Frank Clarici
To quote from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_unit ,
In the first place, the U.S. customary bushel and the U.S. gallon, and their
subdivisions differed from the corresponding British Imperial units. Also
the British ton is 2240 pounds, whereas the ton generally used in the United
States is the short ton of 2000 pounds. The American colonists adopted the
English wine gallon of 231 cubic inches. The English of that period used
this wine gallon and they also had another gallon, the ale gallon of 282
cubic inches. In 1824, the British abandoned these two gallons when they
adopted the British Imperial gallon, which they defined as the volume of 10
pounds of water, at a temperature of 620F, which, by calculation, is
equivalent to 277.42 cubic inches. At the same time, they redefined the
bushel as 8 gallons.
I guess it made sense to someone after they had emptied enough wine gallons
OR ale gallons ...
David Lieb
RWA Midgets with bigger gas tanks than Bugeyes, but still not big enough
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