Prime Movers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
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content: George H. Clark Radioana Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-1911
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0055, Series 18
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series 18 consists of photographs of Prime Movers and instructions for the care and preparation of motor boat gas engines. Included are several photographs of Curtis Turbine sets; photographs of alternating current generators for wireless telegraphy; internal combustion and steam engines and air driven generators; specifications for Hornsby Akroyd oil engine, 1904; blueprints of several engine diagrams; directions for engine operations; and descriptions of wireless telegraphy powered by steam turbines.