Badger Multijet Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1933
name: label: maker
content: Badger Meter Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a rotary multijet water meter made by the Badger Meter Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, Wisc. It fits a ⅝” pipe, and has a capacity of about 13 gallons per minute. Its split case was designed for use in areas where water did not normally freeze. The serial number (1,140,258) dates from 1933. Badger trade literature for this meter boasted that “Simplicity of Design Assures Long Life of Operation.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Badger Meter Manufacturing Company, <i>Badger Water Meters. Rotary Type Multi-Jet</i>.
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.325812
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325812
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (housing material)
label: Physical Description
content: hard rubber (propeller material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel (spindles material)