Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: 1858
notes: label: Description
content: This is the model of a fluid meter that Charles William Siemens submitted to the U.S. Patent Office in 1858. Siemens was a German engineer in England who represented the interests of Siemens & Halske, a firm established by his older brother Werner. He became interested in the challenges of using a turbine to meter water, obtained patents in several countries, and saw some into production. His American patent of 1858 described a turbine meter that was “well adapted for measuring water supplied to manufactories and houses, and will act either under great pressure or under very little pressure and with great variations in the quantity of water passing through it per minute.”
label: Description
content: Ref: C.W. Siemens, “Improvement in Fluid-Meters,” U.S. Patent 22,315 (1858).
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308773
label: catalog number
content: 308773
label: patent number
content: 22,315
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Water Meter