Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — To Estimate the Weight of Iron. [ARTICLE]

To Estimate the Weight of Iron.

A simple way of determining the weight of sheet iron without putting it on the scales is thus described: “It has been found by experience that a square foot of iron plate one-eighth of an inch thick weighed almost exactly five pounds, and this forms a basis for a very simple and easy rule. As a square foot of iron one-eighth of an inch thick weighs five pounds, a square foot of one-fourth inch iron will weigh ten pounds, and, .therefore, the area of any sheet iron, (or plate iron) in square leet multiplied by the thickness in one-eighths and multiplied by five will give the proximate weight of the piece “