California Water Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920s
notes: label: Description
content: This is an oscillating piston water meter with serial number 21,438. It fit a ⅝” pipe. It has a split bronze case with shear pin bolts that slip under high pressure. It was probably made by the California Meter Company in Los Angeles, perhaps in the late 1920s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.325822
label: accession number
content: 245003
label: catalog number
content: 325822
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water meter
label: Object Name
content: California water meter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)