George E. Winslow Reservoir Indicator

Description:

George E. Winslow Reservoir Indicator, Waltham, Massachusetts, c. 1900, with a nickel-plated damascened movement marked Howard & Co. Boston 13 in a hinged, brass, bezel case, 8 3/8-in. silvered dial marked American Steam Gauge Co. Boston, center section with a recording gauge marked 0-120 and reading as above, linked to a Seth Thomas, brass, dual barrel clock mechanism, and flanked on the other side by a hinged, brass, bezel case housing a pressure/recording gauge with dial indicator marked 0-100, with a brass, spring-powered, clock mechanism, all attached to a molded oak panel, wd. 45 x ht. 35 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

the purpose of this indicator is to arrange the transmitting device so that a definite number of impulses of current corresponding exactly to the degree of change in either way, the riing or lowering of water level.

center box section lacking its glass in door, overall oxidation to brass cases, Howard mechanism is running.


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