Dry Gas Meter
name: label: maker
content: American Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This dry gas meter was tested at the National Bureau of Standards, probably at an early date. One inscription reads “THE AMERICAN METER CO. NEW YORK” while another reads “MANUFACTURED BY AMERICAN METER CO. NEW YORK.”
label: Description
content: Ref: 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: New York
setName: label: See more items in
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.330325
label: catalog number
content: 330325
label: accession number
content: 1978.0483
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gas Meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overal material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: stopcock: 1/4 in; .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: bell: 5.7 cm; x 2 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: each nipple: 3/8 in; .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39.3 cm x 31.7 cm x 23 cm; 15 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in x 9 1/16 in