Rockwell Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: Rockwell Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a ⅝” sealed register, magnetic drive disc water meter made by the Rockwell Manufacturing Company. It has a bronze case with a frost proof bottom. Rockwell introduced its sealed register model in 1957, describing it as “the first major advance in water measurement in the past 50 years,” and claiming that the use of a magnetic force to turn the registering mechanisms “eliminates the need for a stuffing box, and makes possible an hermetically sealed register that stays clean, dry, and free from fog.” This example is serial number is 21000000.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Rockwell Report,” <i>Wall Street Journal</i> (Sept. 12, 1958), p. 6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Rockwell Manufacturing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330606
label: accession number
content: 295379
label: catalog number
content: 330606
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 11.1125 cm x 10.795 cm x 19.05 cm