Model, Weston DC generator, US Patent #233,823
date: label: Date made
content: 1876
name: label: maker
content: Weston, Edward
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A direct current generator mounted on a wooden display base. Cylindrical cast iron frame with armature having an oil cup and a commutator at one end with brushes fixed to the frame. (Brushes are disjoint from the generator and are bagged separately.) A pulley is mounted on the opposite end of the armature (the input side) as well as a leather belt that drives a special circuit breaking device. Two binding posts are on the base. A centrifugal circuit closer short-circuits the exciting current at slow speeds. Metal plate reads: "Weston Dynamo Electric Machine / Patented in the / United States / July 18, 1876. October 3, 1876. / and in / England, France, Belgium / Austria & Germany. / Weston Dynamo-Electric Machine Co. / Manufacturers / Newark, N.J.U.S.A. / 400" Stamped on base: "2o / 400". Reference: US Patent 233823, "Dynamo Electric Machine," issued 26 October 1880 to Edward Weston.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.308594
label: catalog number
content: 308594
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 233823
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Generator
label: Other Terms
content: Generator; Motors and Generators
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 16 1/2 in x 11 in; 26.035 cm x 41.91 cm x 27.94 cm