Trident Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1939
name: label: maker
content: Neptune Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with split case and serial number 5,507,307 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Neptune Meter Company in Long Island City, New York, around 1939. The Trident was based on designs patented by John Thomson, a prolific inventor and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
label: Description
content: Ref: Neptune Meter Company, <i>The Trident Water Meter</i> (New York, 1895, 1901, 1903).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
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.325877
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325877
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 19.05 cm