Veeder Tachometer
name: label: maker
content: Veeder Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This type of tachometer measured the rotational speed of such things as shafts and flywheels. This example was probably tested at the National Bureau of Standards. The inscription reads "Veeder THE VEEDER M'F'G' CO., HARTFORD, CONN., U.S.A. / PAT. JULY 7, 1903 / JULY 24, 1906 / FEB. 6, 1912 / MAY 31, 1921" and "SERIAL 70994-13.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Curtis Hussey Veeder, “Tachometer,” U.S. Patent 733,358 (July 7, 1903).
label: Description
content: Curtis Hussey Veeder, “Measuring or Indicating Instrument,” U.S. Patent 937,015 (Oct. 12, 1909).
label: Description
content: Curtis Hussey Veeder, “Tachometer,” U.S. Patent 1,016,906 (Feb. 6, 1912).
label: Description
content: Curtis Hussey Veeder, “Tachometer,” U. S. Patent 1,379,947 (May 31, 1921).
label: Description
content: “CURTIS H. VEEDER / Inventor and Manufacturer Made / Early High Wheel Bicycle,” New York Times (Dec. 28, 1943), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330329
label: catalog number
content: 330329
label: accession number
content: 1978.0483
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tachometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 3/4 in x 7 in x 8 in; 98.425 cm x 17.78 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 1/2 in x 7 3/8 in x 8 in; 97.79 cm x 18.7325 cm x 20.32 cm