American Sundries "Renwal" model #25 electric vaporizer
date: label: Date made
content: c1940
label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: American Sundries Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Cylindrical glass bottle with screw threads around top, about 1 pint capacity. Lid screws onto top of bottle and has a molded spout on top. Lid also serves as mount for heating element and electrical connector (bi-post connector, 3/16 pins, 3/4 spacing). Ceramic insulator passes thru lid and connects to the ceramic insulator / housing for two carbon heating elements. There is a slot in the rear of the housing and on the bottom to allow water to circulate. There is a small ceramic tile attached to the bottom of each element. Stand is steel and consists of a base plate on which the bottle rests, a handle, a friction clamp which holds the bottle in place, and a tin hood to direct the steam. The hood is attached to the stand with two articulated arms (3 joints in each). Power cord appears to be 18 gauge, 2 conductor zip-cord -- rubber or plastic without polarized ribbing -- with ceramic connectors. Cord is wrapped as if new, and does not match the image on the box-top (which shows a bakelite connector with spiral strain-relief), so it probably is not original. Vaporizer appears to have been used. Original package.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0030.15
label: accession number
content: 2003.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0030.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: appliance
label: Object Name
content: electric appliance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 4 in x 8 in; 30.48 cm x 10.16 cm x 20.32 cm