Badger Water Meter with Magnetic Drive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Badger Meter Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This turbine water meter was made by the Badger Meter Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, Wisc. The serial number (1,889,599 ) dates from 1940. According to the donor, the first Badger magnetic-drive meters built on a production line basis were not introduced until the late 1950s. This example was probably specially built for an individual customer. Research on magnetic-drive motors began in the 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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.325809
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325809
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter