Chapter
1 VII | hundred and forty-seven cubic feet; or, in other words,
2 VII | hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of air weigh about
3 VII | giving the balloon these cubic dimensions, and filling
4 VII | hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of gas of which we
5 VII | hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of gas, to give his
6 VII | numbers, to ninety thousand cubic feet.~Could Dr. Ferguson
7 VII | only sixty-seven thousand cubic feet: it was to float in
8 X | tank is about forty-one cubic feet.~“On the upper part
9 X | will dilate 18480 or 1614 cubic feet, and will, therefore,
10 X | therefore, displace 1614 more cubic feet of air, which will
11 X | and will displace 16,740 cubic feet more, and its ascensional
12 X | atmospheric tension, 1,800 cubic feet of the former and 3,
13 X | of the former and 3,780 cubic feet of the latter, or 5,
14 X | of the latter, or 5,670 cubic feet, in all, of the mixture.
15 X | when fully open, expends 27 cubic feet per hour, with a flame
16 X | not burn more than nine cubic feet per hour, so that my
17 XXIV | four hundred and eighty cubic feet of gas; yet the cylinder
18 XXIV | cylinder consumed about nine cubic feet per hour. Consequently,
19 XXIV | hundred and thirty-five cubic feet of gas to feed the
20 XXVI | one hundred and sixty-two cubic feet of gas had been consumed.~
21 XXXIII| measured sixty-seven thousand cubic feet, and contained thirty-three
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