Badger AZTECA Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1937
name: label: maker
content: Badger Meter Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Badger Meter Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, Wisc., developed the AZTECA water meter in the early 1930s after receiving an order for 30,000 water meters for Mexico City. The AZTECA was a rotary, multijet device that was simple, durable, and accurate. It had a split case, and so could be used in places where water did not normally freeze. This example fits a ⅝” pipe, and has a capacity of 15 gallons per minute. The serial number (1,544,940) dates from 1937.
label: Description
content: Ref: Badger Meter Manufacturing Company, <i>The Azteca Rotary Multi-Jet Meter</i>; and <i>Rotary Type Multi-Jet</i>.
label: Description
content: “Meter Co. Gets Order,” <i>Wall Street Journal</i> (April 21, 1933), p. 9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
label: Associated Place
content: Mexico
topic: label: Subject
content: Water
label: Subject
content: Latino
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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.325811
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325811
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter