Arctic Model A Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with frost-proof bottom and serial number 1,571,523. It fit a ⅝” pipe. The Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company declared that it “will meet the requirements of the most exacting user, as to accuracy, durability and low maintenance cost.” It was “equipped with a bronze upper case and a cast iron breakable bottom plate, amply heavy and strong enough to withstand pressure far in excess of that encountered under ordinary service conditions, but designed to break when exposed to excessive strain imposed by freezing.” “Only materials that pass our strict laboratory tests, and comply with our rigid specifications are used in its construction, and the most skilled workmen employed in machining, assembling and proving.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company, <i>The Arctic ‘A’ Water Meter</i>, Bulletin W-505, rev. 2 (1935); also (1938).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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.325817
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325817
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 2/3 in x 7 1/2 in; 19.47332 cm x 19.05 cm