Bakelite Rotor
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1930
label: date made
content: ca 1930
notes: label: Description
content: The “Roto Beam / M. Weber / Chicago, IL.” inscription on this Bakelite rotor refers to a fan that was designed by Max Weber, and produced by the Roto-Beam Air Circulation Company.
label: Description
content: Max Weber, “Air Circulation,” U.S. Patent 2,088,312 (July 27, 1937).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Union Carbide Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0976.53
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0976.53
label: accession number
content: 1981.0976
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rotor
label: Object Name
content: fan blade
label: Object Name
content: Bakelite Rotor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 mm x 247 mm; 3 3/8 in x 9 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 24.4475 cm