Ericsson Hot-Air Engine Model
notes: label: Description
content: This is a small demonstrating engine of the type patented by John Ericsson on March 30, 1880 (accession number 251286).
label: Description
content: This engine is equipped with a gas-heated furnace and has metal radiating fins at the upper end of the cylinder in place of the usual water jacket.
label: Description
content: A brass plate on the engine is inscribed: “To Mrs. E. W. Stoughton from her friend John Ericsson.”
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Engine
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.308142
label: catalog number
content: 308142
label: accession number
content: 70417
objectType: label: Object Name
content: engine, hot air
label: Object Name
content: engine, hot air, model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (base material)
label: Measurements
content: iron base - from catalog card: 5 3/4 in x 8 in; 14.605 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 30.7975 cm x 14.605 cm x 23.495 cm