Tropic Water Meter
- Description
- This is a disc water meter with split case and serial number 3,319,571 that fit a 2” pipe. The Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company introduced the Tropic meter around 1924, for use in areas where water did not normally freeze.
- Ref: Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company, The Tropic Water Meter, Bulletin W-501, rev. 2 (1935).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1924-ca 1941
- maker
- Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 3/4 in x 15 1/4 in; 32.385 cm x 38.735 cm
- ID Number
- PH.325883
- accession number
- 245003
- catalog number
- 325883
- Credit Line
- A.A. Hirsch
- subject
- Water
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Measuring & Mapping
- Water Meters
- Natural Resources
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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