I hope the designer got recognized for this one, because it’s really clever.
On a recent trip to the frozen Northlands, I came across a Westinghouse kilowatt-hour meter and picked it up to use in classroom discussions about power and energy.
Looking more closely at it reveals a neat design quirk — the 2nd and 4th indicators move counterclockwise, and so (with reversed scales) can share two digits with each neighbor.
There seems to be enough space in the meter that this wouldn’t be necessary — but perhaps the design was originally from a smaller meter. Or maybe this was just an engineer having fun.
