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• Gauging unmasked : Which shews all the necessary rules in vulgar and decimal arithmetic, with several contractions in both. The extraction of the square and cure roots: stereometry, or The whole art of gauging, by the pen and sliding-rule: with the forms and definitions: the method of keeping the stock-book for ale and x-waters: tables of cylinders and areas of circles and squares. The whole designed for the use and service of the revenue-officers, being calculated according to 217.6 the solid inches contained in the liquid gallon, now used in Ireland. By John Ballard, excise-officer. Printed and published by order of the Right Honourable and Honourable the Chief Commissioners and Governors of His Majesty's Revenue of Ireland
  by: Ballard, John
  Published: (1783)
• Tables calculated for the use of the revenue officers of Ireland : Containing, I. New and correct tables of cylinders from 10 Inches to 45 Inches Diameter, with their Use. II. A Table shewing the Areas of Squares in Gallons and Decimal Parts, calculated to every tenth Part and Quarter of an Inch of the Side, from 1 to 100 Inches. III. A Table of Allowance to common Brewers of two Gallons in 22 for Ale, and of 2 1/2 Gallons in 23 for Beer X and VI. IV. New and correct Money Tables for Ale and Small Beer, in which the hereditary Revenue, and additional Duties, are calculated and proportioned to the Gallon of 217.6 Cubic Inches; as lately ordered by the Right Honourable and Honourable the Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue of Ireland. V. A new and correct Money Table for strong Waters at 2 Pence, 8 Pence, and 10 Pence per Gallon, from 1 to 20000 Gallons. By George McGregor, Philomath
  by: M'Gregor, George
  Published: (1773)
• The theory and practice of gauging : demonstrated in a short and easy method. Containing, among other Particulars, The Method of Computing Decimally; extracting the Square Root, with the Construction and Use of the Sliding-Rule explain'd at large. The Elementary Properties of the Conic Sections, and the Manner of describing them in Plano. General Principles of Mensuration, with Theorems for Measuring all right-lin'd Planes, Parallelopipedons, Prismatic Solids, the Conic Sections, Conoids, Spindles, their Segments, and Frustums, &c. A General Proposition for measuring the Hoofs or Ungula's of any Cone or Pyramid; and a new Method for Measuring by Approximation. With the Application of the preceeding Principles to Practice; and illustrated throughout by particular Examples. Published with the particular Approbation of the Honourable Commissioners of Excise. Design'd for the Use of the Officers of that Revenue. By Robert Shirtcliffe
  by: Shirtcliffe, Robert
  Published: (1740)
• A treatise of gauging : or, the modern practical gauger. Containing, besides all the principal rules usually given on the subject, a great variety of new and interesting improvements: Particularly of gauging All Sorts of curvilineal Vessels, by the most Easy, Concise, and Certain Method; which is Now practised, and highly approved of, in and about this Metropolis. With the Demonstrations of several very useful and remarkable Properties of Vessels and Instruments, relative to this Art. Illustrated with necessary examples, and adapted both to the speculative and practical Reader. By Thomas Moss
  by: Moss, Thomas
  Published: (1768)
• Stereometry, or, the art of gauging made easie, by the help of a sliding-rule: Which shews the Area's of Circles in Gallons, and the Square and Cube Root of any Number under 100000, by Inspection: And is also very useful in Arithmetick and Geometry, particularly in the Measuring of Superficies and Solids. With an appendix of conick sections: Shewing the Nature, Properties, and Contents of several Solids, frequently mentioned in Books of Gauging. The eighth edition, carefully corrected. To which are added several new tables, with Short and Plain Rules for Gauging of Malt. by Tho. Everard, Esq
  by: Everard, Thomas
  Published: (1721)