Voltage Regulator
name: label: maker
content: Thordarson Electric Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: The inscriptions on this voltage regulator read "MADE IN U.S.A. THORDARSON ELECTRIC MFG. CO. CHICAGO ILL. AUTOMATIC VOLTAGE REGULATOR" and “TYPE T-23V01; IMPUT VOLTAGE 95-130V; FREQUENCY 60; SERIAL NO. 14677; OUTPUT V.A. 100; SEC. V.: SEC. V., SEC. V." The Thordarson Electric Mfg. Co., in Chicago, was organized by Chester Thordarson (1867-1945), an Icelandic-American who held nearly a hundred patents related to transformers, inductors, high voltage coils, etc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Willson Products, INCO Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0420.3
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0420.03
label: accession number
content: 1981.0420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Voltage Regulator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.8 cm x 13.7 cm x 33 cm; 7 in x 5 3/8 in x 13 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/16 in x 5 1/4 in x 13 in; 17.93875 cm x 13.335 cm x 33.02 cm