Sikes, [Bartholomew].

Sikes’ Tables of the Concentrated Strength of Spirits, with directions for the use of the Hydrometer. Established Throughout the United Kingdom for Estimating the Duties on Spirituous Liquors. To which is added, Tables of Specific Gravity adapted for the use of the Hydrometer.

Revised. No place, No publisher, No year (c.1865). 14 cm x 21.8 cm. VIII, 102 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on front board with blind tooling. Good- condition. Soiled boards. Stained. Foxing to textblock edge and throughout interior.

Bartholomew Sikes devised a system of alcoholometry which was legalised in Great Britain in 1816 for ascertaining the strength of spirits for revenue purposes and has remained in official use ever since. He designed a metal hydrometer and compiled tables for use in conjunction with it, which, together, provide a simple means of determining the strength of mixtures of alcohol and water. [Source: Nature, Vol. 127, pages398–399, (1931)]

• Keywords: Alcohol · Drink · Drink Ingredients · Food and Drink – Rare · Legal History · Legal status, laws, etc · Liquor/Spirits · Parliament · Science · Science – Rare · Spirits/Liquor
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120265AB

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