General Electric type RC4 direct current motor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Nameplate reads: "Direct current motor / No. 474253 wound shunt Type R.C. 4 Form 435 Volts 230 / Open continuous HP 2 Amps. 8.1 / Speed 1700 / Closed Hp. 3/4 Amps 3.1 / Speed 1800 / General Electric Co. / Schenectady, N.Y. U.S.A." This specimen is mounted on a wooden base together with direct current generator, catalog number 319269. Although separate catalogue numbers have been given in this case, the two units appear to be a motor-generator set. Reference: Similar to motor illustrated in Hausman, Swoope's "Lessons in Practical Electricity", page 440.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Brown University, Div. of Engineering thru George M. Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.319272
label: accession number
content: 235101
label: catalog number
content: 319272
label: serial number
content: 474253
objectType: label: Object Name
content: motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
label: Object Name
content: motor-generator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 16 in x 20 in; 35.56 cm x 40.64 cm x 50.8 cm