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Thus far this book has been concerned with meters for measuring total flow and flowrate in pipes. We come now to instruments of a related but essentially different type, namely instruments for measuring the velocity at a point of a flowing fluid.
The gods make instruments to plague us.
Shakespeare
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Hayward, A.T.J. (1979). Fluid Velocity Measuring Instruments and Insertion Meters. In: Flowmeters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03379-9_7
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