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Title: Orifice Meters
Author: L. K. Spink
Source: 1945 Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course (Now called ISHM)
Year Published: 1945
Abstract: The application ol the orifice meter to closed flows in gas pipe lines is relatively new and can be accredited to the demand occasioned by the need oi a reliable measuring device to meter the large volumes oi natural gas which wore being released about the beginning of the 20th Century. In the period around 1000, a great many gas lines were started out of the West Virginia fields to Pittsburgh and other large centers ol industry, In 1903, the Hope Natural Gas Company built the first gas compressing station at Hastings, West Virginia, and with it came further recognition of the need for facilities for transporting natural gas. Simultaneously came the need for an accurate and reliable means of measuring this gas.

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