Metering
for America is
something you’re unlikely to see published today. It is a company history in
the form of a hardback book.
I’m not especially interested in The American Meter Company. I’m a professional interested in the natural gas industry.
Author Alfred Lief gives attention to the wider gas industry throughout the book, from the early gas light companies that used gas manufactured from coal (or sometimes other things), the competition with electric lighting, expansion into gas for cooking and heating and finally the expansion of a national natural gas infrastructure.
Of course, there is plenty to be said about American Meter along the way. The second half of the book is arguably more about the company than about the gas industry in general.
Even so, I found the book fairly interesting, especially the discussions related to the development of gas up to World War I. It’s probably not of interest to a broad audience or widely available. I found my copy at a used book store in Omaha, Nebraska.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
The Age of Edison by Ernest Freeburg
Contents Under Pressure by Sylvia
F. Munson
Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes
How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
The Power Makers by Maury Klein
Leif, Alfred. Metering for America: 125 Years of the Gas Industry and American Meter Company. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961.
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