Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ometer. Radiometer. Kheometer, Rhy si meter. Rotary meter. Sacc barometer. Nalinometer. Seismometer. Self-registering barometer. Sonometer. Spbereometer. Sphygmometer. Spirit-meter. Spiritometer. Spirometer. Stadinieter. Steam-power meter. Stereometer. Stethometer. Stylometer. Submarine thermometer. Sympiei-ometer. Tachometer. Telemeter. Thallasometer. Theodolit
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ometer. Radiometer. Kheometer, Rhy si meter. Rotary meter. Sacc barometer. Nalinometer. Seismometer. Self-registering barometer. Sonometer. Spbereometer. Sphygmometer. Spirit-meter. Spiritometer. Spirometer. Stadinieter. Steam-power meter. Stereometer. Stethometer. Stylometer. Submarine thermometer. Sympiei-ometer. Tachometer. Telemeter. Thallasometer. Theodolite-magnetometer. Thermo-barometer. Thermometer. Tithonometer. Tonometer. T radiometer. Tree home ter. Tribomcter. Tympanometer. Udometer. Irinometer. Vclocimeter. Viatometer. Voltameter. Water-meter. Wet-meter. Wheel-barometer. Zygmosimeter. Zymometer. The terms meter, register, coutiter, iiidkatory aresomewhat irregularly used, but are not exact syno-nyms. An indiccdor makes audible or visible noticeof results or condition. A register i-ecords. A vwtermeasures distance, capacity, power, etc., giving re-sults usually inFig. 3130, volumes or other units, and mayhave an indicatorfor reading, or aregister for record-ing its Meter-^?7heel. One used in connection witligas and liquid meters and air-carburiting machines. METE-STICK. 1428 METRIC SYSTEM. In the Ibniur, it is drivin by tliP flow of fjas whosevoliiiriL it measures ; iiiiil in tlic lattiT c-ase it isusually cinployeil to iiuhuH- a flow of air through tliehydrocarbon linuiii, and jiiifornis the function of ablower. It has usually several cbaniliers, and whenmeasuring gas, is submerged above its axis in water,in the chambei wherein it rotates. The ehanil)ersin the wheel are of known capacity, and the revolu-tions are registered upon dials. In the gas-meter,the gas passes in at the hollow trunnion, anil the central pipe to each chamber in turn. Asthe gas fills the chamber it rises, and, when filled, itslip
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