Trident Style 3 Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: 1907-1965
name: label: maker
content: Neptune Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: Disc water meter with a "2 TRIDENT STYLE 3" inscriptions. It was made by the Neptune Meter Company in Long Island City, New York, and fit a 2” pipe. It was based on designs patented by John Thomson, a prolific inventor and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In 1907, Neptune described the Style 3 as the “only meter that can be adjusted for different pressures.” Later trade literature noted that this model was designed for intermediate use, between “the usual house service, requiring but a small volume at moderate rates of flow and that of a manufacturing plant or similar service requiring a larger flow of water.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Neptune Meter Company ad in <i>Journal of the New England Water Works Association</i> 21 (1907): vi.
label: Description
content: Neptune Meter Company, <i>Trident Meter Price List</i> (1942), p. 5.
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.329739
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 329739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 12 in x 17 in; 29.845 cm x 30.48 cm x 43.18 cm