Steamheat Cooking Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1880-03-09
label: patent date
content: 1880-03-09
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 225,240) of a cooking stove designed for use with the Holly system of steamheating, made by Samuel Silsbee of Cincinnati, OH and patented on March 9, 1880. Painted black. Features an oven with plain top plate and stepped or raised steamtable with two circular holes for cooking vessels. Missing its superheater which connected to the two pipes on one side. No marks on object, but darkened paper tags tied to stove door handle with red or purple wove ribbon are printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251429
label: catalog number
content: 251429
label: accession number
content: 48890
label: patent number
content: 225240
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, cooking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (pipes material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in x 6 5/8 in; 13.97 cm x 10.4775 cm x 16.8275 cm