Weeden No. 105 Toy Electric Generator and Pump
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts produced this electric motor Number 105 from around 1911 until 1918. The toy consists of a generator and pump. An engine could be connected to the drive wheel on the central shaft to drive both the pump and rotate the central coil of the generator. The generator produces a direct electric current through the rotation of the wire coil in a magnetic field. Weeden’s advertising claimed that the pump could throw water up to six feet.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Weeden Manufacturing Company was founded in New Bedford, Massachusetts by William M. Weeden in the early 1880s, originally producing a variety of tinplate household items. In 1884 it introduced the Weeden No. 1 Steam engine as “a new and great premium for boys” who were subscribers to the <i>Youth’s Companion</i> magazine. Weeden made over a hundred different models of toy steam engines until the company ceased operations in 1952.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.329040
label: catalog number
content: 329040
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, electric motor & pump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: flywheel-from catalog card: 2 5/8 in; x 6.6675 cm
label: Measurements
content: base-from catalog card: 8 1/2 in x 6 in; x 21.59 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 8 3/8 in x 5 3/4 in; 10.16 cm x 21.2725 cm x 14.605 cm