Badger CC Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1904-ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Badger Meter Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter made by the Badger Meter Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, Wisc. It fits a ⅝” pipe and has a capacity of 26 gallons per minute. The serial number is no longer legible.
label: Description
content: According to the firm, this meter was “so constructed that the current of water completely fills the receptacle both above and below the measuring mechanism. The entire chamber is thus constantly flushed, preventing the secretion of sediment which might injuriously affect the working of the meter, or the unsanitary stagnation of water in a blind pocket.” The frost-proof bottom is a “plate of soft gray cast iron thoroughly galvanized and rust proof, with a low breaking strength of 600 pounds.” If the water in the meter should freeze, the bottom plate would break, “thus relieving all strain long before the pressure has reached a point where it is dangerous to the interior parts.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Badger Meter Manufacturing Company, <i>Badger Water Meters</i> (about 1925)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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.325803
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325803
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (bottom material)
label: Physical Description
content: bronze, phosphor (intermediate train gears material)
label: Physical Description
content: bronze, phosphor (pinion gears material)
label: Physical Description
content: bronze, phosphor (pinion rod material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 19.05 cm