Hall Water Current Meter
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: While serving as California’s first State Engineer, William Hammond Hall created the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and worked on a comprehensive water supply and flood control system for the Sacramento Valley. For this latter purpose he designed an electric water current meter similar to that developed E. E. Haskell at the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. This example of Hall's meter is 17 inches long, has two flukes, one on each side of the central axis, and is equipped for a cable suspension. It was probably used in the U.S. Irrigation Survey, a project of the U.S. Geological Survey begun in the late 1880s. The Geological Survey transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1916.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. W. Powell, “Irrigation Survey—Second Annual Report,” in <i>Report of the Secretary of the Interior</i> (Washington, D.C., 1890), vol. 4, part 2, p. 10.
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. 63-64.
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.289640
label: accession number
content: 59263
label: catalog number
content: 289640
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Water Current <eter
label: Object Name
content: Water Current Meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 17 1/4 in x 8 in; 11.7475 cm x 43.815 cm x 20.32 cm