Decelerometer
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Grover Products Company
notes: label: Description
content: Automotive decelerometer with “GROVER PRODUCTS CO. / LOS ANGELES” and “DECEL-O-METER” and “PAT. NO. 1,552,681” inscriptions. Grover Products began in business in 1936, and received a copyright on the term “decel-o-meter” in 1937.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry W. Davis, “Nut Lock,” U.S. Patent 1,552,681 (Sept. 8, 1925).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Automobiles
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.322266
label: accession number
content: 247189
label: catalog number
content: 322266
objectType: label: Object Name
content: decelerometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 5 in x 5 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm x 13.335 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 4 7/8 in x 6 in; 12.7 cm x 12.3825 cm x 15.24 cm