Watch Dog Water Meter

Description:

This disc water meter, with split case and serial number 18,536, was made by the Gamon Meter Company in Newark, New Jersey, in 1910 or shortly thereafter. Ernest E. Gamon, Jr. resigned his position as factory manager of Neptune Meter in 1909, opened a new firm in Newark, and showed a Watch Dog meter at the annual meeting of the New England Water Works Association. By 1915 he was boasting that Watch Dogs were in use on over 90,000 taps throughout the country.

Ref: Gamon Meter Company ad in American City 12 (1915): 24.

Date Made: ca 1910

Maker: Gamon Meter Company

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: New Jersey, Newark

Subject: Water

Subject:

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Credit Line: A.A. Hirsch

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: PH.325889Accession Number: 245003Catalog Number: 325889

Object Name: water meter

Physical Description: bronze (overall material)

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-6269-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1411538

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