Electro-magnetic engine
name: label: user
content: Henry, Joseph
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A direct current motor, associated with Joseph Henry, ca. 1845. Two cylindrical electromagnets pull on an armature strip which activates a lever mechanism affixed to a rotating wheel. This is supposed to have been used by Joseph Henry however, appearance of specimen suggests that it is of more recent origin.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the Smithsonian Institution Collection of Apparatus, thru William C. Winlock
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181444
label: catalog number
content: 181444
label: accession number
content: 2006.0177
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
label: Other Terms
content: Motor; Electromagnetic Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 8 in x 5 1/8 in; 15.24 cm x 20.32 cm x 13.0175 cm