He says he'd even be happy if he can parlay his part-time work as a gas-meter reader into a new career as a gas-meter repairman. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It caused a peculiar clicking sound, as though he had something between a giggle and a gas-meter at work in his neck. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I haven't paid you back for the gas-meter shilling, 'said Hallam. ❋ Deighton, Len, 1929- (1964)
Nor would the gas-meter do, where there was probably no gas. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1951)
When any part of an acetylene apparatus or a gas-meter freezes, notwithstanding the precautions specified in II., 7, it must be thawed only by pouring hot water into or over it; flames, burning fuel, or red - hot iron bars must not be used. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)
A register of these revolutions is made by machinery similar to a gas-meter. ❋ Various (N/A)
To ascertain the exact cost of the light, as well as of the gas illumination which it replaced, a gas-meter was placed to measure the consumption of the gas through the jets affected; and also the carbons consumed by the electric illumination were noted. ❋ Various (N/A)
There are two types of gas-meter in common use, either of which may, without essential alteration, be employed for measuring the volume of acetylene passing through a pipe. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)
Where, however, acetylene or other gas is flowing through pipes or apparatus there is a loss of energy, indicated by a falling off in the pressure due to friction, or to the performance of work, such as actuating a gas-meter. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)
I was a gas-meter man and a collector for a Home for Lost Doggies, and I didn't get a thing to go on, except a servant in the top flat at the Battersea Bridge Road end of the row who said she thought she'd heard a bump on the roof one night. ❋ Dorothy Leigh (1923)
He put a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes. ❋ Unknown (1924)
I was a gas-meter man and a collector for a Home for Lost Doggies, and I didn't get a thing to go on, except a servant in the top flat at the Battersea Bridge Road end of the row who said she thought she heard a bump on the roof one night. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L. (1923)
Vickey, you're pretty, but you can lie like a gas-meter. ❋ Harold Brighouse (1920)
Peter, you might pretend you've come to inspect the gas-meter or the milk or something. ❋ Unknown (1919)
U-tubes on the rack on the table is joined on one end by well-fitting rubber connections to the tube leading from the mercurial manometer and on the other end to the rubber tube A leading to the gas-meter. ❋ Francis Gano Benedict (1913)
While formerly pains were taken to obtain the exact temperature of the air leaving the gas-meter, with this apparatus it is unnecessary. ❋ Francis Gano Benedict (1913)
In order to compute from the analyses the total carbon-dioxide content of the residual air, it is necessary to know the relation of the air used for the sample to the total volume, and thus we must know accurately the volume of air passing through the gas-meter. ❋ Francis Gano Benedict (1913)
The pet-cock which connects the return air-pipe with the drying-tower and the gas-meter is then opened and the mercury reservoir is lowered. ❋ Francis Gano Benedict (1913)
U-tubes, and as the pointer on the gas-meter approaches 10 liters the mercury reservoir is raised at just such a point, gained by experience, as will shut off the air-current when the total volume registers 10 liters on the meter. ❋ Francis Gano Benedict (1913)
It has been pointed out that the fluctuations in the temperature of the gas-meter affect not only the volume of the gas passing through the meter, but likewise the tension of aqueous vapor. ❋ Francis Gano Benedict (1913)
[The gas] o [meter] is reading [empty]. We better get some gas. ❋ Angelpoetheart (2009)
