Crocker-Curtis type 1N direct current motor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1888
name: label: maker
content: Curtis & Crocker Electric Motor Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A bipolar DC motor with commutator on one end of armature shaft, two-grove pulley on other end, and two copper leaf brushes affixed to frame. Armature set above two vertical field poles. Oil cups are fitted on both sides of the frame for lubricating the armature shaft. Three mounting feet. Nameplate reads: " C&C Electric Motor Co. / New York. U.S.A. / Patented Dec. 21, 1886. / Pats. App'd For / Speed 1500 / Type 1N No.3966 / Amperes [blank] Volts 110". Reference: Electrical World 11, page 125.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, thru Dean Howard Menand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318585
label: accession number
content: 232729
label: catalog number
content: 318585
objectType: label: Object Name
content: motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in; 24.765 cm x 19.05 cm x 22.225 cm