Trident Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: late 1890s
name: label: maker
content: Neptune Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with frost proof bottom and serial number 60,777 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made in the late 1890s by the Neptune Meter Company. The bronze case is marked “TRIDENT” and “60777.” The top of the cap is marked “NEPTUNE METER COMPANY NEW YORK 39291.” The inside of the cap is marked “PATENTED MAY 21, NOV. 1, 1892, FEB 6, MAY 22, 1894, MAR 12, 1895, SEP 29 ‘96” and “60777.” The firm was founded in 1892. Its original product, the Trident, was based on designs patented by John Thomson, a prolific inventor and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Neptune boasted in 1903 that “Nearly 165,000 Tridents” were then in use.
label: Description
content: Ref: Neptune Meter Company, <i>The Trident Water Meter</i> (New York, 1895, 1901, 1903).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
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.325873
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325873
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 21.9075 cm x 19.05 cm