Wet Gas Meter
name: label: maker
content: American Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This wet test meter (probably a model 613) was designed for use with all forms of calorimeters, for measuring the heat capacity of gases. A brass tag is marked “American Meter Company 3852.” The dial is marked “AMERICAN METER COMPANY.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Brown’s Directory of American Gas Companies and Gas Engineering and Appliance Catalogue (New York, 1922), p. 206.
label: Description
content: The American Meter Co., Calorimetry (New York, 1914), p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Koppers Co., Inc., Metal Products Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.336369
label: accession number
content: 1978.0078
label: catalog number
content: 336369
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gas Meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: dial: 17.7 cm; x 6 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.5 cm x 31 cm x 28 cm; 13 31/32 in x 12 7/32 in x 11 1/32 in