 The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite. It is 700 feet in the side of its base, and 500 in perpendicular height, and stands on eleven acres of ground. Its weight is, therefore, 12,760 millions of pounds, at a medium height of 125 feet ; consequently...  Manual of Chemistry - Page 148by Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1841 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nature - 1831
...The consumption of seven bushels of coal would suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. (52.) The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite....630 chaldrons of coal, a quantity consumed in some founderies in a week. (53.) The annual consumption of coal in London is estimated at 1,500,000 chaldrons.... | |
 | Kater (Henry, Captain), Dionysius Lardner - Science - 1831 - 388 pages
...The consumption of seven bushels of coal would suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. (52.) The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite....630 chaldrons of coal, a quantity consumed in some founderies in a week. (53.) The annual consumption of coal in London is estimated at 1,500,000 chaldrons.... | |
 | Social Science - 1831
...The consumption of seven bushels of coals would suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. " The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite....be raised by the effort of about 630 chaldrons of coals, a quantity consumed in some foundries in a week. " The annual consumption of coal in London... | |
 | BARON BROUGHAM & VAUX - 1831
...sea. The consumption of teven hanhels of coal would suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite. It is 700 feet in the tide of its base, and 500 in perpendicular height, and stands on eleven acres of ground. Its weight... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832
...sea. The consumption of seven bushels of coal would suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite....at a medium height of 125 feet ; consequently, it could be raised by the effort of about (330 chaldrons of coal, a quantity consumed in some foundries... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832
...sea. The consumption of seven bushels of coal would suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite....at a medium height of 125 feet ; consequently, it could be raised by the effort of about 630 chaldrons of coal, a quantity consumed in some foundries... | |
 | John Timbs - History - 1832
...suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. Why are coals so productive of grand mechanical effects? The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite....pounds, at a medium height of 125 feet; consequently, it could be raised by the effort of about 630 chaldrons of coal, a quantity consumed in some foundries... | |
 | William Whewell - 1832 - 118 pages
...sea. The consumption of seven bushels of coal would suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite....eleven acres of ground. Its weight, is therefore, 12760 millions of pounds, at a medium height of 125 feet ; consequently it would be raised by the effort... | |
 | History - 1839
...it to the place where it now hangs. The great pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite. It is, 1,700 feet in the side of its base and 500 in perpendicular height, and stands on 11 acres of ground. Its weight is, therefore 12,670,000,000 of pounds at a medium height of 125 feet;... | |
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