flips and gasmeters

GSCole gscole at ARK.SHIP.EDU
Wed Mar 7 01:05:05 UTC 2001


Hope that the following Cornell-MOA site is reachable, per the URL.

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fmanu%2Fmanu0026%2F&tif=00139.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABS1821-0026-352

It is dated June 1984, and has a column titled Nickel-in-Slot Gas
Meters, and refers to pay-before-you-burn gas meters, which have been
introduced in New York city.  The meter is "modeled on the familiar
principle of the nickel-in-the slot machine."

The item further notes that "The meter has been in use in England for
some time. . . . There the dropping of a penny (two cents) in the slot
sets the gas going.  Here 25 cents is to be used to produce this
effect."

George S. Cole  gscole at ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University



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