Hersey F.F. Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: Hersey Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter made by the Hersey Manufacturing Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Its copper-lined cast iron bottom was designed to break under pressure, thus preventing damage to the working parts. With a capacity of 20 gallons per minute, it was the smallest of several sizes made. The serial number (829,403) dates from 1920.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hersey Manufacturing Company, <i>Hersey Water Meters</i> (1917), pp. 4-7.
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.325848
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325848
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 19.05 cm