Sample of electrical railway subway conductor, Washington, DC
date: label: Date made
content: 1895
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This form of conductor was used on the Metropolitan Street Railway in Washington, DC, in August 1895, when the road was changed from a horse to an electric line. This specimen is from a section laid on Ninth Street, North-West, at its intersection with Louisiana Ave., and was taken up in November 1899. The sections were 27 ft. (8.2 m) long; weighed 23.5 lbs. per yard (10.6 kg per meter); and had a conductivity equal to 400,000 circular mills of copper.
label: Description (Brief)
content: George C. Maynard was curator of the Electricity Collections from 1896 through 1918, and a resident of Washington, DC. Presumably he obtained this sample from the work site when it was removed from service.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from George C. Maynard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.209423
label: catalog number
content: 209423
label: accession number
content: 37605
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cable
label: Object Name
content: cable sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 16 in x 4 in; 5.08 cm x 40.64 cm x 10.16 cm