Trident Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900-ca 1910
name: label: maker
content: Neptune Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with split case and serial number 366,654 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Neptune Meter Company in Long Island City, New York, in the first decade of the twentieth century. The firm was founded in 1892. Its original product, the Trident water meter, was based on designs patented by John Thomson, a prolific inventor and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Neptune boasted in 1909 that “A record of over 600,000 Trident Meters made and sold give to us the pre-eminent position among water meter manufacturers.”
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.325875
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325875
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