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Title: Tin Meters
Author: C. E. Sherburne
Source: 1929 Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course (Now called ISHM)
Year Published: 1929
Abstract: 1 will touch briefly on the history of tin meter so as to frive some idea JS to the fine record ior accuracy and durability that it has made for itself. When gas was first produced commercially in England, it was sold on the basis of the estimated number of cubic feet per burner. Such computation was not only unsatisfactory, but unprofitable. It was not until 1815, when Clegg brought his wet meter to a .state of approximate perfection, that the gas business changed from an unsuccessful experiment to a commercial success. The improved wet meter is used today as a station meter in the manufactured gas business, for the correct measurement of small volumes in an experimental or laboratory process, and to some extent in England as a consumers meter. It has been largely replaced abroad and entirely in this country by the more convenient dry meter. The dry meter was invented in 1843 by Richards, another Englishman, and perfected several years later by Thomas Glover, whose name is synonymous with the dry naeter in use today.

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