Nash Type 9 Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910-ca 1947
name: label: maker
content: National Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with frost-proof flanges on the bottom and serial number 775,872 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the National Meter Company in Brooklyn, New York. The case is marked “NATIONAL METER CO. 5/8 AA-X NASH” and “TYPE 9” and “1114” and “775872.” The rectangular top is marked “NATIONAL METER CO. NEW YORK 775872” AND “1114.” The name refers to Lewis H. Nash, the man who served as chief engineer of National Meter for over thirty-five years and who, in the late 1880s, designed the first disc meter made in the United States. AA-X designates a linear register.
label: Description
content: Ref: National Meter Co., <i>Type “9” Nash Water Meter</i>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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.325865
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325865
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 20.955 cm x 18.415 cm