Gas Meter
Gas Meter
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- Description
- Patent model for Alexander Angus Croll, “Gas Meter,” U.S. Patent 9,591 (Feb. 22, 1853).
- A. A. Croll (1811-1887) was a British engineer and social reformer who spent most of his life in London, designed several dry gas meters, and ran a gas meter factory. He submitted this model with one of his U.S. patent applications.
- Ref: Alexander Angus Croll, “On the Construction and Use of Gas Meters,” Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 4 (1845): 211-218.
- “Alexander Angus Croll,” Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 90 (1887): 446-449.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Gas Meter
- Date made
- 1853
- patented by
- Croll, Alexander Angus
- maker
- Croll, Alexander Angus
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 in; 10.16 cm x 13.97 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- CH.308906
- catalog number
- 308906
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 9,591
- 9,591
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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