Price Water Current Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1882
notes: label: Description
content: William Gunn Price, an employee of the U.S. Engineer Department, designed an exceptionally robust and successful water current meter. This example is the instrument that Gunn, with the aid of four mechanics, built in 1882. It has a five-conical bucket wheel mounted on a vertical-axis, and a four-blade rudder. It is 30.5 inches long. Gunn was living at Paducah, Ky., at that time, and used this meter on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The U.S. Geological Survey transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1916.
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur H. Frazier, <i>William Gunn Price and the Price Current Meters</i> (Washington, D.C., 1967), p. 40.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Frazier, <i>Water Current Meters in the Smithsonian Collections of the National Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1974), pp. 78-87.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Water Currents
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U. S. Geological Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.289638
label: accession number
content: 59263
label: catalog number
content: 289638
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Water Current Meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 32 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 82.55 cm x 19.05 cm