Nash Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930s
name: label: maker
content: National Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter with frost-proof flanges on the bottom and serial number 2,060,039 that fit a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the National Meter Company in Brooklyn, New York, probably in the 1930s. The name refers to Lewis H. Nash, the man who served as chief engineer of National Meter for over thirty-five years and who, in the late 1880s, designed the first disc meter made in the United States.
label: Description
content: National Meter began in business in Manhattan in 1870, broke ground for a larger factory in Brooklyn in 1891, and announced in 1893 that it was “the largest establishment for the manufacture of water meters in the world.” It became the National Meter Division of the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company in the early 1940s. National Meter and Pittsburgh Equitable Meter became divisions of the Rockwell Manufacturing Company in 1947; and Rockwell became part of SENSUS in 2003.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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.325863
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325863
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 18.7325 cm x 19.05 cm