Hersey CT Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1928
name: label: maker
content: Hersey Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a compound meter that joins a torrent meter, Model T, and a disc meter, Model FF. The Hersey Manufacturing Company introduced the form in 1914, and later described it as “a special meter in which Current and Positive Displacements Meters are combined with an Automatic Differential Valve for the purpose of accurately measuring a larger range of flow than can be accomplished by either meter separately.” The torrent meter in this example has a capacity of 160 gallons per minute; the disc meter has a capacity of 20 gallons per minute. The serial number (1,325,762) dates from 1928.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hersey Manufacturing Company, <i>Hersey Compound Water 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: A. A. Hirsch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325842
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325842
label: serial number
content: 1325762
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 17 in; 34.29 cm x 43.18 cm