Carbide (Acetylene) Gas Toaster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Five-jet single burner on four splayed tab feet with a circular, four-arm, fixed grate and white ceramic-handled stopcock or shut-off valve; for use with Colt carbide-feed acetylene gas generator. Separate four-sided toaster; consists of a tiered top piece, pyramidal body with four columns of horizontal pierced slots on each side and rounded-corner square base, all held together with bent wire racks with projections for holding bread. No maker's marks on either piece.
label: Description
content: America Lava Corporation of Chattanooga, TN (1902-1981) produced ceramic insulators for acetylene burners and, later, electrical equipment. Dates of operation for the Acetylene Stove Manufacturing Company not known.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
topic: label: Subject
content: Cooking
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Energy & Power
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Eastern Light Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0935.13
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0935.13
label: accession number
content: 1977.0935
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toaster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (grate, burner tubes material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (grate finish material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (grate and grate support finish material)
label: Physical Description
content: chrome plate (base, nozzle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (stopcock material)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (stopcock handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: sheet, metal (toaster top, body, base material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, metal (toaster support material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in; 22.225 cm x 16.51 cm x 22.225 cm