Ott Water Current Meter
name: label: maker
content: Ott, Albert
notes: label: Description
content: This water current meter is Ott s/n 2237. The National Bureau of Standards, the organization that calibrated current meters for federal agencies and engineers in private practice, transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1959. Albert Ott was a precision instrument maker in Bavaria who began in business in 1880, and was later joined by his sons, Herman and Ludwig. Over the years, the Otts collaborated with many distinguished European hydraulic engineers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316595
label: catalog number
content: 316595
label: accession number
content: 225869
objectType: label: Object Name
content: current meter, water
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 17 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 44.45 cm x 16.51 cm