Empire Streemline Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
name: label: maker
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is an oscillating piston water meter with frost-proof bottom and serial number 7,595,520. It fit a ⅝” or ¾” pipe, and was made in Brooklyn, N. Y., around 1948, by the National Meter Division of the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company. The Streemline, the result of an extensive Pittsburgh-National program of research and development, was introduced in 1941 and said to be “as modern as tomorrow.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company, ad in <i>Journal of the American Water Works Association</i> (June 1941).
label: Description
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company, <i>The Empire Streemline Water Meter</i> (1944).
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.325832
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325832
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 18.7325 cm x 19.05 cm