A weight of four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement of the air amounting to forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven
cubic feet; or, in other words, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven
cubic feet of air weigh about four thousand pounds.
20,000
cubic feet; and since the contents of your cannon do not exceed 54,000
cubic feet, it would be half full; and the bore will not be more than long enough for the gas to communicate to the projectile sufficient impulse."
The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and
cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.
These two dimensions enable you to obtain by a simple calculation the surface and
cubic contents of the Nautilus.
"Would be able to boil two billions nine hundred millions of
cubic myriameters [2] of water."
At one end is a mighty revolving drill operated by an engine which Perry said generated more power to the
cubic inch than any other engine did to the
cubic foot.
That is my estimate of the number of beds we could stow away in the
cubic feet you offer us."
It contained about three hundred and twenty
cubic feet of gas, which, if pure hydrogen, would support twenty-one pounds upon its first inflation, before the gas has time to deteriorate or escape.
But then, you see, he's made good use of his time,--a first-rate calculator,-- can tell you the
cubic contents of anything in no time, and put me up the other day to a new market for Swedish bark; he's uncommonly knowing in manufactures, that young fellow."
He stuck to it that the Russian peasant is a swine and likes swinishness, and that to get him out of his swinishness one must have authority, and there is none; one must have the stick, and we have become so liberal that we have all of a sudden replaced the stick that served us for a thousand years by lawyers and model prisons, where the worthless, stinking peasant is fed on good soup and has a fixed allowance of
cubic feet of air.
There is not an atom of Tom's slime, not a
cubic inch of any pestilential gas in which he lives, not one obscenity or degradation about him, not an ignorance, not a wickedness, not a brutality of his committing, but shall work its retribution through every order of society up to the proudest of the proud and to the highest of the high.
He had come to the conclusion that it was somewhere indoors: so he worked out all the
cubic space of the house, and made measurements everywhere, so that not one inch should be unaccounted for.