Water Meter
date: label: Date made
content: 1858
name: label: patented by
content: Siemens, Charles W.
notes: label: Description
content: Charles William Siemens (1823-1883) was a German-born engineer and entrepreneur who spent most of his working life in London. He designed the first reliable water (or fluid) meter, and received a British patent on the form in 1852. He submitted this model along with his application for an American patent a few years later.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles W. Siemens, “Improvement in Fluid-Meters,” U.S. Patent 22,315 (Dec. 14, 1858).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308733
label: catalog number
content: 308733
label: patent number
content: 22,315
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fluid Meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in; 20.32 cm