Phoenix Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1914-ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Phoenix Meter Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with frost proof bottom and serial number 129,490 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Phoenix Meter Corporation in Staten Island, New York. Phoenix Meter was organized in 1914, incorporated in 1925, and out of business by the early 1940s. Ernest Gamon, an engineer who had been connected with the meter industry since 1900, was a prime mover of the firm.
label: Description
content: Ref: Phoenix Meter Corporation, <i>Phoenix Disc Water Meters</i> (n.d.).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Staten Island
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.325869
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325869
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 7 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 19.05 cm