King Model B Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1916-ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Union Water Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with a split case and serial number 314,974 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Union Water Meter Company. Union introduced this meter in 1916, noting that it was “of the positive measuring, self draining type, combining strength, simplicity, long service and accuracy under varying service conditions.” The firm was established in Worcester, Massachusett, in 1868, and folded in the mid-1930s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Union Water Meters, <i>Price List No. 52</i> (Worcester, 1922), p. 6. .
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.325852
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 17.4625 cm x 19.05 cm