Gas Meter
name: label: maker
content: American Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this gas meter reads “Patented June 5, 1880. American Meter Co. New York. 2 Light Meter No. 756791.” A circular brass tag on the front of the rectangular tin case reads “AMERICAN METER / NEW YORK / . . .” The dials read in cubic feet.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alfred Lief, <i>Metering for America: 125 Years of the Gas Industry and American Meter Company</i> (New York, 1961).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Meter Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.322447
label: catalog number
content: 322447
label: accession number
content: 248004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gas Meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: porcelain enamel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 34.29 cm x 24.13 cm x 19.05 cm