Worthington-Gamon Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: early 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Worthington-Gamon Meter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a disc water meter, serial number 3,783,592, made by the Worthington-Gamon Meter Company in Newark, N. J. It has been cut away to show the operating parts. It was made after 1941 when the firm boasted that 3,650,000 of its meters were then serving thousands of communities.
label: Description
content: Ref: Worthington-Gamon ad in <i>Journal of the American Water Works Association</i> 33 (Nov. 1941), ad section, p. 5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315359
label: accession number
content: 219306
label: catalog number
content: 315359
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 13 in; 20.32 cm x 33.02 cm