Excerpt from The Water Meter: Its Difficulties, Types and Applications; A Manual of Reference and Fact in Connection With the Supply of Water by Meter In order to achieve this object, it is proposed in the first place to consider What is required of a meter that it may efficiently discharge all its functions, then to examine the various types of meter Dow obtainable, and to deter mine how far each one goes towards meeting those requirements. The next step will be to discuss the conditions incidental to the divers purposes for which these instruments are used, and lastly to suggest as impartially as possible the particular types of meter which best fulfil them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.