Standard Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: maker
content: Standard Water Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a current water meter with split case that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Standard Water Meter Company in Brooklyn, New York, around 1910. Like most current meters, the measuring device here is a series of cups mounted on a spindle. The meter is marked “Pat’d Jan. 17 ’98, July 27 ’08, Feb. 8 ’10, other pats pending.” The earlier date refers to the “Rotary Fluid-Meter” patent issued to William H. Marsh, manager and later a director of Standard Water Meter. The latter two dates (one the date of application and the other the date of issuance) refer to the “Water-Wheel” patent issued to Fred Bangerter and assigned to Standard Water Meter. A Swiss-born inventor working in Brooklyn, Bangerter also devised a machine gun that could fire 2 million bullets an hour. Standard Water Meter was incorporated in 1881, reorganized several times, and out of business by 1927.
label: Description
content: Ref: Standard Meter Company, <i>Standard ‘Sapphire’ Water Meters</i> (Brooklyn, n.d.).
label: Description
content: Standard Meter Company, <i>Water Meter Price List</i> (Brooklyn, 1912).
label: Description
content: “Fires 2,000,000 Bullets Hourly,” <i>Washington Post</i> (March 8, 1908), p. M4.
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.325872
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325872
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)