Arctic Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: mid-1940s
name: label: maker
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with frost-proof bottom and serial number 3,143,709. It fit a ⅝” pipe, and was made by the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company in the mid-1940s. Pittsburgh Equitable described it as “an instrument unsurpassed in the water measurement field,” explaining that it had “a bronze upper case and a brass lined cast iron breakable bottom plate, amply heavy and strong enough to withstand pressure far in excess of that encountered under ordinary conditions of service, the bottom plate, however, designed to break when exposed to the excessive strain imposed by freezing.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company, <i>The Arctic Water Meter</i>, Bulletin W-500 (1931).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.325816
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325816
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)