Empire Victory Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1941-ca 1945
name: label: maker
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company
label: maker
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company. National Meter Division
notes: label: Description
content: This is an oscillating piston water meter with frost-proof bottom. It was designed by “foresighted” Pittsburgh-National technicians who “realized that a scarcity of bronze, resulting from essential war-time production needs, could cause a serious shortage of water meters.” Its case is of cast iron that was “treated, coated and lined” to prevent rusting. Its register box is made of molded glass designed to withstand considerable abuse. It fit a ⅝” or ¾” pipe, and was made by the National Meter Division of the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company, in Brooklyn, N. Y., in the early 1940s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company, <i>The Empire Victory Water Meter</i> (1942).
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.325833
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325833
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 19.05 cm