Meters

Examples

• We had meters in which there were two bottles of liquid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Lieb wrote from Milan, Italy, that he had in use on the Edison system there 360 meters ranging from 350 ampere-hours per month up to 30,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The meters commonly used measure the amperes, volts, and time automatically, and register the electric power supplied in watt hours. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Edison had perfect confidence in his meters, and also in the ultimate judgment of the public as to the superiority of the incandescent electric light as against other illuminants. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Ward Leonard, installed the meters and became meter man, in order that he might study in every intimate detail the improvements and refinements necessary in that branch of the industry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Shepard went on to state that the chemical meters were gradually displaced, and that on September 1, 1898, there were on the system 5619 mechanical and 4874 chemical. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Twenty were exposed to the air on the heights of the Jura at an altitude of eight hundred and fift y meters above sea-level; the contents of five of these subsequently putrefied. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, distribution mains, meters, house-wiring, safety-devices, lamps, and lamp-fixtures--all were vital parts of the whole system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This arrangement interfered with correct meter registration, as the meters on one side of the system registered backward during the hours in which the combination was employed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Two meters was left between the lines and they extended from the door of the _Ayuntamiento_ clear across the plaza to the edge of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Such gas meters are furnished by the companies, and can be read easily. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Here were made all the small things used on the electric-lighting system, such as sockets, chandeliers, switches, meters, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Notes are also made on meters and motors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If it had been I, said Delagrange, I would have made a flight if I had been likely to smash up at three hundred meters rather than disappoint those ten thousand people. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He holds in general that the meters of to-day, whether for heavy or for feeble currents, are too expensive, and that cheaper instruments are a necessity of the times. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• After that they were shown the meters by which the consumption of current was measured. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The first bill for lighting, based upon the reading of one of these meters, amounted to $50. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Five hundred meters below that turn. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• These remarks apply more particularly to what may be termed, in general, circuit meters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The first gas meters were known as wet meters, and effected a measurement by passing the gas through a liquid and rotating a wheel therein. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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