Wilde magneto, patent #59,738
date: label: Date made
content: 1866
name: label: associated person
content: Wilde, Henry
label: maker
content: Wilde, Henry
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Model for US Patent 59738, "Magneto," issued 13 November 1866 to Henry Wilde, figures 1 and 2. Claim: A method of constructing magnet cylinders for magento-electric and electro-magnetic machines by making them of segmented iron concaves with intervening strips of non-electric (insulating) material. Wooden base supporting four flat steel magnets (mounted vertically) with a horizontal armature revolved by crank. This specimen has been incorrectly labeled as Farmer Magneto-Electric Machine. No extant maker's markings.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.252636
label: catalog number
content: 252636
label: accession number
content: 49064
label: patent number
content: 59738
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Generator
label: Object Name
content: magneto generator
label: Other Terms
content: Generator; Magnetic Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 6 5/8 in x 9 1/4 in; 20.955 cm x 16.8275 cm x 23.495 cm