Columbia Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1895-ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Union Water Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a turbine water meter with split case and serial number 141,208, that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Union Water Meter Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. Union introduced the Columbia in the mid-1890s, noting that it “was especially designed for house service in waters carrying at times considerable foreign matter, or having unusually great corrosive action.” The firm was founded in 1868, and folded in the mid-1930s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Union Water Meter Company, <i>Water Meter Price List</i> (Worcester, 1910), p. 9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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.325887
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325887
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 7 in; 17.145 cm x 17.78 cm