Dry gallon measure of approximately the same size, though the dry gallon is a bit bigger. 1 dry gallon ≈ 1.163 647 fluid gallons Its implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches in diameter and 8 inches in depth. That made the dry gallon a non-terminating number of cubic inches, an irrational number whose value with the first six digits after the decimal point was 268.802521 ( cubic inches ≈ ). The bushel was later defined to be exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, making the dry gallon exactly
Tom Gallon Tom Gallon Tom Gallon (5 December 1866 – 4 November 1914) was a British playwright and novelist. He was the brother of author and publicist Nellie Tom-Gallon, who founded the Tom-Gallon Trust Award for beginning writers in memory of her brother. A large number of his books were turned into films. Thomas Henry Gallon was born in Bermondsey, London, the son of John P. Gallon (an engineer, fitter and turner) and his wife Martha K. Gallon. Many of Tom Gallon's novels were made into films, including "The Princess of Happy Chance" (1916), "Meg the Lady" (1916), "The Cruise of the