Weston direct current dynamo
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1881
label: date made
content: ca 1881
name: label: maker
content: Weston Electric Light Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Nameplates marked: "Weston Electric / Light Co. / Newark, N.J. / U.S.A." Another plate reads: Manufactured by Weston Dynamo Electric Machine Co. / Newark, N.J., U.S.A. / Patented in the U.S. June 4, 1878, January 14, 1879 and in England, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain". Dynamo mounted on wooden base. Each field pole is 25" long by 4" outside diameter. Ends of poles are magnetically connected by plates: 21" high x 15" wide x 2" thick. Six field poles mounted horizontally, 3 above and 3 below. The armature rotates across the axis of the field poles between curved pole pieces. Drum type armature with windings set in slots. Commutator has 16 segments set at an angle to axis of rotation. Air gap between pole and armature is about 1/8". Armature revolves in slotted field magnet housing. Reference: MacLaren, Rise of the Electrical Industry in the 19th Century, pages,123, 117.
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 Physics, thru A. G. Shenstone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.315799
label: catalog number
content: 315799
label: accession number
content: 221203
objectType: label: Object Name
content: generator
label: Object Name
content: Dynamo, Weston
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 48 in x 46 in; 76.2 cm x 121.92 cm x 116.84 cm