Trident Victor Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915-ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Neptune Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This water meter, serial number 1,302,284, fit a ⅝” pipe, and was made by the Neptune Meter Company in Long Island City, New York. Neptune introduced the Victor model around 1915, noting that it had an oscillating piston, a cast iron bottom, and precision machining of the parts.
label: Description
content: Ref: “A New Oscillating Piston Water Meter,” <i>Engineering and Construction</i> 44 (1915): 96-97.
label: Description
content: Neptune Meter Company, <i>A Quarter Century of Trident Success, 1892-1917</i> (1917), pp. 56-57.
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.325878
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325878
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 12 in x 17 in; 28.575 cm x 30.48 cm x 43.18 cm