Ritty Steam Boiler, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1873
label: patent date
content: 1873-07-22
name: label: inventor
content: Ritty, Sebastian
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with the application for the patent issued to Sebastian Ritty, of Dayton, Ohio, July 22, 1873, no. 141172.
label: Description
content: The model represents a horizontal cylindrical flue boiler from the center of which is suspended a rectangular water chamber or header. From the header a series of horizontal closed-end water tubes extend forward and back within the furnace below the drum. The outside ends of the tubes are closed and are supported in sheets, which form the front and back walls of the furnace. The forward lower tubes support the grates, and the products of combustion pass through an opening in the central header around the back tubes up and then forward through the flues of the drum.
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: Ohio
label: associated place
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Models
label: Subject
content: Steam Engines
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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
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content: Patent Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ER.309215
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 309215
label: patent number
content: 141,172
objectType: label: Object Name
content: steam boiler
label: Object Name
content: boiler, steam, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, boiler, steam
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 9 3/8 in x 4 in; 15.5575 cm x 23.8125 cm x 10.16 cm