Gas Meter
date: label: Date made
content: 1876
name: label: patented by
content: Phillips, Robert C.
label: maker
content: Phillips, Robert C.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Robert C. Phillips, “Improvement in Gas-Meters,” U.S. Patent 183,510 (Oct. 24, 1876). Robert C. Phillips (1834-1913) was an engineer in Cincinnati who made and sold dry gas meters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.309278
label: catalog number
content: 309278
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 183,510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gas Meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in; 38.1 cm