Empire Type 11 Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: National Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is an oscillating piston water meter with split case and serial number 2,194,232. It fit a ⅝” or ¾” pipe, and was made by the National Meter Company in Brooklyn, N. Y., around 1930. National introduced the Type 11 meter in 1927, noting that the composition of the bronze case was their "own special mixture" and "highly resistant to corrosion."
label: Description
content: Ref: National Meter Company, <i>The Empire Oscillating Piston Water Meter</i> (1930).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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.325831
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325831
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)