Langes Legetoy Toy Drill Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This toy drill press was manufactured by the Danish company H. Langes Legetoy around the middle of the 20th century. The toy is made of cast metal painted red but is missing the ribbed steel band that runs from the lower pulley to the upper pulley to spin the drill. 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.329076
label: catalog number
content: 329076
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, drill press
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 3 1/4 in; 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in x 2 in; 8.255 cm x 2.8575 cm x 5.08 cm