Rotary Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: 1909
name: label: maker
content: Hersey Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Rotary meter of the sort that Hersey Manufacturing Company introduced in 1886 and discontinued around 1926. Trade literature described it as belonging to “a class of positive displacement meters in which the piston has a rotary motion” that was “adapted for use on all services where accuracy and reliability are required and where the service is especially severe.” Since all parts were “interchangeable and accessible,” the meter could be easily repaired at nominal cost. This example—a ⅝” meter with a capacity of 15 gallons per minute—was the smallest of several sizes made. The serial number (325,849) dates from 1909.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Hersey Water Works Price List</i> (Jan. 1, 1912)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of A. A. Hirsch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325849
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325849
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter