Nash Type K Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915-ca 1947
name: label: maker
content: National Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with split case and serial number 1,215,590 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the National Meter Company in Brooklyn, New York, probably in the 1920s. The case is marked “5/8 NASH TYPE K NATIONAL METER CO” and “1215590.” The cap is marked: “NASH METER PAT’S APRIL 1 1902, JULY 15 1914, FEB 9 1915” and “1215590.” 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.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Nash Water Meter Type “K” (Dixie Model)</i>; this is National Meter Company Circular 201.
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.325864
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325864
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 7 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 19.05 cm