Eureka Water Cart Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: probably 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is an inferential-type water meter with serial number 962082, probably made by the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company in the 1930s. It has a cast-iron body and a capacity of 240 gallons per minute, and fits a 2” pipe.
label: Description
content: Introduced in 1906, the Eureka was described as "a meter of the velocity or inferential type, more commonly designated as a ‘current’ meter. It is especially adapted to the measurement of large and rapidly flowing volumes of water, particularly for supply mains, hydraulic elevators, water motors, railroad standpipes, fire services, street sprinkler carts, or any other class of service requiring a large volume of water without the retardation of the flow, or the perceptible reduction of the effective head or pressure.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “The Eureka Water Meter,” <i>American Gas Light Journal</i> (Oct. 8, 1906): 632.
label: Description
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Division, Rockwell Manufacturing Company, <i>Pittsburgh Eureka ‘B’ Current Type Water Meters</i>, Bulletin W-808 Rev. 1 (1949).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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.325838
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325838
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
label: Object Name
content: meter, water
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 14 in; 29.21 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 10 in x 24 in; 43.18 cm x 25.4 cm x 60.96 cm