Gas Meter
name: label: patented by
content: Croll, Alexander Angus
label: maker
content: Croll, Alexander Angus
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Alexander Angus Croll, “Gas Meter,” U.S. Patent 9,591 (Feb. 22, 1853).
label: Description
content: A. A. Croll (1811-1887) was a British engineer and social reformer who spent most of his life in London, designed several dry gas meters, and ran a gas meter factory. He submitted this model with one of his U.S. patent applications.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alexander Angus Croll, “On the Construction and Use of Gas Meters,” <i>Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers</i> 4 (1845): 211-218.
label: Description
content: “Alexander Angus Croll,” <i>Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers</i> 90 (1887): 446-449.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.308906
label: catalog number
content: 308906
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 9,591
label: patent number
content: 9,591
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gas Meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 in; 10.16 cm x 13.97 cm x 7.62 cm