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Technical drawing of the wet gas meter
Category Plans and charts
Year of manufacture/creation late 19th or early 20th century
Place of manufacture/creation Dortmund, Germany
Size
Height: 37.5 cm
Width: 65.5 cm
Material paper
Museum/Storage location Gasworks Museum in Paczków
Date of admission to the museum 1991
Rights to the exhibit Gasworks Museum in Paczków
Rights to digital images public domain
Exhibit description
The technical drawing illustrates a proposal to install a wet drum gas meter in the newly built municipal gasworks in Paczków, more precisely in the machinery room. It was a production gas meter, a device which measured the volume of gas that the plant produced and the volume of gas that was purified in the machinery room. The raw material was then fed into a gas holder and into the mains.
These types of gas meters were most commonly used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They later fell out of use replaced by rotary gas meters. This particular meter has not survived to the present day in Paczków. Similarly to other devices of this type, it was replaced by a rotary gas meter in the 1960s.
These types of gas meters were most commonly used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They later fell out of use replaced by rotary gas meters. This particular meter has not survived to the present day in Paczków. Similarly to other devices of this type, it was replaced by a rotary gas meter in the 1960s.
