Portable Steam Heater Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1857-06-30
label: patent date
content: 1857-06-30
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 17,666) of a portable steam heater or radiator consisting of a flat-sided, horizontal rectangular steam chamber with oval side handles and arched legs that is mounted to a saucer-shaped boiler at bottom center; made by I. H. Chester of Cincinnati, OH, and patented on June 30, 1857. Boiler is fed through pipe with ball-shaped funnel at top center. Aircocks at top corners. Originally japanned or painted green; decorative scrollwork and invention name gilded across front. Paper tags stored with object and another tied with red wove ribbon to side handle are printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251779
label: catalog number
content: 251779
label: accession number
content: 48890
label: patent number
content: 17666
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radiator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (steam chamber, boiler material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (steam chamber, boiler material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (rivets on steam chamber material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (funnel, aircocks, handles, legs material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 12 5/8 in x 4 in; 24.765 cm x 32.0675 cm x 10.16 cm