American Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900-ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Buffalo Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This disc water meter with split case fit a ⅝” pipe. It was made by the Buffalo Meter Company in Buffalo, N. Y. The firm was established in 1892, brought out the first Niagara meter soon thereafter, and the first American meter around 1900. The interior parts of the two meters were the same, but the American had a bronze case, and so could be used where the water is not particularly hard or corrosive.
label: Description
content: Ref: Buffalo Meter Company, <i>American and New Niagara Water Meters</i> (1925)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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.325821
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325821
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: hard rubber (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 19.05 cm