Weeden No. 22 Hot-Air Engine Toy
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts produced this number 22 “hot air” engine from the 1890s until 1916.The engine is not a steam engine, as no water is heated. Instead the firebox heats air which expands and moves a piston to create useful mechanical work. The engine is a vertical engine made of tin, with two flywheels.
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.329052
label: catalog number
content: 329052
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: engine, hot air
label: Object Name
content: engine, hot air, toy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 4 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: flywheels: 2 in; x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 4 3/8 in; 22.86 cm x 11.1125 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall:;