Watch Dog Model A Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Gamon Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with frost proof bottom and serial number 1,805,509 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Gamon Meter Company in Newark, New Jersey, around 1930. The firm announced in 1927 that over 1,300,000 of its meters were in use in the United States and Canada. Gamon merged with the meter division of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation in 1933, to form the Worthington-Gamon Meter Company.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gamon Meter Company, <i>“Watch Dog” Water Meters, Model A, Frost Proof</i> (Newark, New Jersey, 1933).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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.325890
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 19.05 cm