IMO Type 2 Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1941-ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a rotory water meter with split case and serial number 7,312,070 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company. The IMO was described as “The Most Accurate Water Meter Ever Commercially Made.” Aktiebolaget IMO Industri of Stockholm, Sweden, held the basic patents and Pittsburgh Equitable was licensed to manufacture and sell these meters in North America.
label: Description
content: Ref: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company, <i>Pittsburgh IMO Meters</i> (1941).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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.325850
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325850
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 19.05 cm