Empire Type 7-AAX Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910-ca 1941
name: label: maker
content: National Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is an oscillating piston water meter with a split case, the top of brass and the bottom of cast iron, and serial number 1,833,790, that was made by the National Meter Company in Brooklyn, New York. The Type-7 has a deep iron base designed to neutralize the galvanic action that might occur in some chemical-laden waters. AAX designates a linear register.
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.325870
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325870
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (top material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (bottom material)