Water Current Meter
date: label: date made
content: 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Benjamin Theophilus Moore, a British mathematician and engineer who conducted hydraulic experiments on the Nile in 1873, submitted this model of a water current meter to the U.S. Patent Office in 1875.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin T. Moore, “Improvement in Ships’ Logs,” U.S. Patent 169,024 (1875).
label: Description
content: Benjamin T. Moore, <i>On a Current Meter, a Deep-Sea Current Indicator, and an Improved Ship’s Log</i> (London 1876).
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), p. 68.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Models
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Water Currents
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308551
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 308551
label: patent number
content: 169,024
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Water Current Meter
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in x 20 in; 24.13 cm x 15.875 cm x 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 20 1/4 in x 5 in; 12.065 cm x 51.435 cm x 12.7 cm