King Model A Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905-ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Union Water Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with split case that fit a a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Union Water Meter Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. The serial number has been obliterated. The firm was founded in 1868, introduced the King meter in 1905. and folded in the mid-1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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.325854
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325854
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 17.4625 cm x 19.05 cm