Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: 1936
name: label: maker
content: Hersey Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Disc meter made by the Hersey Manufacturing Company in Boston, Mass. Hersey introduced the form in 1919, and described it as a “positive displacement meter of the nutating type” that was “adapted for use on all services where extreme accuracy, reliability and durability are required and where general efficiency rather than first cost is of prime importance.” The serial number (1,669,637) on this example dates from 1936. The case has been partially cut away to show the mechanism.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Hersey Disc Water Meter. Model H.F. Meter</i> (July 1, 1926).
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: Mrs. Donald Bliss
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319448
label: accession number
content: 238754
label: catalog number
content: 319448
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 7 in; 17.78 cm x 17.78 cm