Toy Steam Engine
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This toy steam turbine, made by Weeden Manufacturing, consists of a firebox and boiler in a pressed sheet metal container painted to simulate brickwork. The boiler has a sight glass and safety valve, with a steam line powering a turbine wheel made from an eggbeater gear that is connected to a second gear. A line shaft is connected to the toy’s wooden base that could be strung to the turbine and power a variety of toy machine accessories.
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
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
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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.329050
label: catalog number
content: 329050
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, steam turbine and boiler
label: Object Name
content: steam turbine and boiler, toy
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 3/4 in x 12 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 42.545 cm x 32.385 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 3/4 in x 12 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 42.545 cm x 32.385 cm x 19.05 cm