Langes Legetoy Toy Grinder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This toy grinder was manufactured by the Danish company H. Langes Legetoy around the middle of the 20th century. The grinder consists of a cast metal base painted red, with a grindstone in the center that has a shaft and pulley wheel that allows the grindstone to be attached to a power source and spun. H. Langes Legetoy produced a variety of toy machine tools including a trip-hammer, grindstone, drill press, shaper, punch press, circular saw, tumbler, lathe, and grinder. These tools would often be arranged on a single board with a line shaft allowing all the machines to be operated simultaneously from a single power source.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The company was formed by four men: Henning H. Langes, Alfred Nielsen, Kaj Christiansen and later E. Leager-Larsen. Langes was the financier and head of sales, Nielsen was the shop foreman, and Christiansen and Leager-Larsen were the toolmakers and designers.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The company began manufacturing out of a factory basement at no.19 Nyrnberggade in Amager (a suburb of Copenhagen) in 1945. Advertisements for H. Langes toys began circulating in the latter part of 1946.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Denmark: Copenhagen
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.329082
label: catalog number
content: 329082
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, grinding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 2 1/2 in; 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 6.35 cm x 3.175 cm x 4.1275 cm