Keystone DC Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1927
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter that fit a ⅝” pipe. The Pittsburgh Meter Company introduced the Keystone meter in 1901, and the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company was still producing it in the late 1930s. The serial number (1,474,178) suggests that this example was made around 1927.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
topic: label: Subject
content: Water
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Water Meters
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: A. A. Hirsch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325856
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325856
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 5/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 19.3675 cm x 19.05 cm