A tilting water meter for purposes of experiment

✍ Scribed by J.C. Hoadley

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1884
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 362 KB
• Volume: 117
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(84)90304-1

✦ Synopsis

Having had to make, in the course o£ the year, a great number of experiments in pumping water fi]tered through sand under various prearranged conditions, in quantities ranging from little more than one gallon in an hour to eight or ten gallons in a minute, the writer soon found tDat all commercial water meters were wholly unsuitable for his purposes. They were liable to obstruction by" sand, inaccurate at best, wildly inaccurate at very low speeds, and difficult to read at high speeds. In addition to this, the readings were at all times insusceptible of verification and of' permanent record.

Not having found~ after search made, any account of a suitable

instrument, it became necessary to devise one, and without pre~suming that this is wholly new or unknown to all the members of this society, drawings and a description of it are presented as ~ matter of record fbr what it is worth.