Dry Gas Meter
notes: label: Description
content: This dry gas meter was tested at the National Bureau of Standards, probably at an early date. The inscription reads “METRIC METALWORKS ERIE, PA. 5-150 NO. 126081.” The Metric Meter Co. was organized in 1888, and built a factory in Erie, Pa., a few years later. It merged with the American Meter Co. in 1895.
label: Description
content: Ref: Metric Metal Works ad in The Gas Record 19 (Dec. 1921): 8.
label: Description
content: David A. Waples, The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia (2012).
label: Description
content: M H. Stillman, “Testing of Dry Gas Meters,” in Bureau of Standards Publication Weights and Measures, Report of Eighth Annual Conference of Representatives from various States (May, 1913).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Erie
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330326
label: catalog number
content: 330326
label: accession number
content: 1978.0483
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gas Meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: dial: 8.3 cm x 4.2 cm; 3 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40.5 cm x 32 cm x 24 cm; 15 15/16 in x 12 19/32 in x 9 7/16 in