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Title: The Orifice METER-A Product Of Cooperation Within An Industry
Author: Allen D. Maclean
Source: 1941 Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course (Now called ISHM)
Year Published: 1941
Abstract: The old bard who coined the phrase-Necessity J the mother of invention would be forced to cliange iiis wording somewhat if he lived in modern times. -Necessity is the mother of development more nearly 55 the facts in most of our recent advances. In- ra:ion-pure invention-is becoming much rarer in :r industrial life development, in its true and broad seEse, more nearly describes the process by which tiLe tcols and appliances of industry are furnished. Xo one development Illustrates this fact better than -.he orifice meter as used by the gas industry. It Tould be impossible to name the inventor of the - tdern orifice meter. There might be a few me- --.sniCHl parts Of the whols instrument for which .-:me one Individual might receive credit as inventor :u: the instrument as a whole in its application to --P job of measui-ing was developed. It was developed zu- by one man, or even one group of men. It is a Sue example of cooperation between many sides of miustry the physicist, the mathematician, the inrr- jment builder, the various engineering societies, -Jie universities, governmental agencies, and last but re least, the gas companies themselves. It required -e services of all these groups individually and it rec-jired a unification of their efforts to produce the T-r7 excellent measuring device we now call the :r--:ice meter,

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