Small Price Current Meter
name: label: maker
content: W. & L. E. Gurley
notes: label: Description
content: William Gunn Price, of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, designed an exceptionally successful current meter in 1882, obtained a patent, and asked W. & L. E. Gurley, a large mathematical instrument firm in Troy, N.Y., to undertake commercial production. Following suggestions made by hydrographers who worked with Price’s early meters, Edwin Geary Paul, a mechanic with the U.S. Geological Survey, designed what became known as the Small Price Current Meter. This example is a commercial model manufactured by Gurley.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Gunn Price, “Current Meter,” U.S. Patent 325011 (1885).
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Frazier, <i>William Gunn Price and the Price Current Meters</i> (Washington, D.C., 1967), p. 59.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Frazier, <i>Water Current Meters in the Smithsonian Collections of the National Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1974), pp. 78-87.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Troy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Arthur H. Frazier
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.323836
label: catalog number
content: 323836
label: accession number
content: 253257
objectType: label: Object Name
content: current meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/16 in x 18 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in; 15.71625 cm x 46.99 cm x 15.875 cm