Dry Gas Meter
name: label: maker
content: American Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This dry gas meter was tested at the National Bureau of Standards, probably at an early date. The inscriptions read “AMERICAN METER OF NEW YORK” and “BS25863.”
label: Description
content: Ref: M. H. Stillman, “Testing of Dry Gas Meters,” in Bureau of Standards Publication Weights and Measures, Report of Eighth Annual Conference of Representatives from various States (May 1913).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330324
label: catalog number
content: 330324
label: accession number
content: 1978.0483
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dry Gas Meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel plating (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: cylinder for water: 5 in x 4 23/32 in; 12.7 cm x 11.99998 cm
label: Measurements
content: each nipple: 3/8 in; .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.5 cm x 24 cm x 16.5 cm; 8 7/8 in x 9 7/16 in x 6 1/2 in