Hersey H.F. Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: 1920
name: label: maker
content: Hersey Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc meter of the sort that the Hersey Manufacturing Company introduced in 1919. Hersey described it as a “positive displacement meter of the nutating type” that was “adapted for use on all services where extreme accuracy, reliability and durability are required and where general efficiency rather than first cost is of prime importance.” This example—a ⅝” meter with a capacity of 20 gallons per minute—was the smallest of three sizes made. The serial number (864,882) dates from 1920.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hersey Manufacturing Company, <i>Hersey Disc Water Meter. Model H.F. Meter</i> (July 1, 1926).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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.325844
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325844
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 16.8275 cm x 19.05 cm