Calmet Model B-C Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: early 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Well Machinery & Supply Company
notes: label: Description
content: This oscillating piston water meter with split case and no serial number fit a ¾” pipe. It was made by the Well Machinery & Supply Company in Fort Worth, Texas. It has a cast-iron body and so was probably made during the materials restrictions of World War II.The city of Fort Worth agreed, in 1930, to purchase 8,000 oscillating piston meters from the California Meter Company of Los Angeles. The Well Machinery & Supply Company acquired California Meter soon thereafter, and advertised Calmet water meters as “A Texas Made Product.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Water Meter Concern Cites Accepted Bid,” <i>Los Angeles Times</i> (Aug. 30, 1930), p. E1.
label: Description
content: Well Machinery & Supply Company, <i>Calmet. The Precision Built Water Meter</i> (Fort Worth, n.d.).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Fort Worth
topic: label: Subject
content: Water
label: Subject
content: World War II
label: related event
content: World War II
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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.325825
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325828
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 9 in; 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm