King Model Two Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905-ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Union Water Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with split case and serial number 188,916 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Union Water Meter Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. Union introduced the King meter in 1905, and was soon boasting that its construction “presents no experimental devices of undetermined value, but is a sound, simple and sensible embodiment of features which the unfailing test of time as qualified for existence.” Union went on to say that “All internal moving parts are assembled in a single working unit, readily accessible for inspection without removing the meter from the service-pipe.” “Extensive investigation and experiment have proved conclusively that the solid, flat, hard-rubber disk is the most economical and satisfactory.” It also called attention to “hard-rubber gears and bronze pinions.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Union Water Meter Co., <i>The King Disk Meter, Catalogue No. 46</i> (Worcester, 1907).
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.325853
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (disc material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 17.4625 cm x 19.05 cm