Watch Dog Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: maker
content: Gamon Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This disc water meter, with split case and serial number 18,536, was made by the Gamon Meter Company in Newark, New Jersey, in 1910 or shortly thereafter. Ernest E. Gamon, Jr. resigned his position as factory manager of Neptune Meter in 1909, opened a new firm in Newark, and showed a Watch Dog meter at the annual meeting of the New England Water Works Association. By 1915 he was boasting that Watch Dogs were in use on over 90,000 taps throughout the country.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gamon Meter Company ad in <i>American City</i> 12 (1915): 24.
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.325889
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325889
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)