Pile of wood
The pile of wood was a measure of volume in the former Prussian Breslau .
The measure directly described the amount of firewood for cordwood . It was the only measure that was called a pile of wood . Other dimensions that described a quantity in the form of a pile of wood had their own names, such as the volume measure Carro .
- 1 pile of wood = 454 5/9 Parisian cubic inches = 155.786 cubic meters
literature
- Joseph Johann von Littrow, Carl Ludwig von Littrow: JJ v. Littrow's Comparison of the Most Excellent Measures, Weights, and Coins. Beck, 1844, p. 31
Web links
Wiktionary: Pile of wood - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 126