Gas Meter
name: label: maker
content: American Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: The tag on the front of this residential gas meter identifies the maker, the American Meter Co. The “PAT'D 1621986” inscription on the tube at one side refers to a patent describing a method of attaching the meter to a wall.
label: Description
content: Ref: William H. Kaiser, “Meter Connection,” U.S. Patent 1,621,986 (March 22, 1927), assigned to American Meter Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0768.22
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0768.22
label: accession number
content: 1979.0768
label: patent number
content: 1621986
label: serial number
content: 40 3674486
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gas Meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: tag: 42 mm x 67 mm; 1 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: register: 51 mm x 83 mm; 2 in x 3 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41.5 cm x 31.5 cm x 23.5 cm; 16 5/16 in x 12 3/8 in x 9 1/4 in