General Electric type KQ alternating current motor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 220 volt alternating current induction motor with a closed frame. Ventilation louvers on front and back permit views of the stator and rotor construction. Four feet with mounting holes. Slotted shaft on one end of armature (no pulley) and enclosed cap on opposite end (cover plate missing).Four cloth insulated cords (two black and two red) emerge from right side. Nameplate reads: "Induction motor. / No. 767943 Type KQ 4 - 1/2 1800 Form C / Cycles 60 H.P. 1/2 / Amp. 1.65 Volts 220 / Speed no load 1800 Full load [blank] / Pat. Oct. 27, 1896 June 25, 1901 / General Electric Co. / Schenectady, N.Y. U.S.A. / N.P.4840". Plate on side reads: "Part Numbers / Carbon Brush Cat. [blank] / Pulley End B'R'G' L'N'G. Cat. 64970 / [F]ront End B'R'G' L'N'G. Cat. 64970 / Stator Coil Spec. 135356V / Rotor Spec. 200224B / When ordering parts always give / N.P.8513 Serial Number of Machine".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Brown University, Div. of Engineering thru George M. Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.319282
label: catalog number
content: 319282
label: accession number
content: 235101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
label: Other Terms
content: Motor; Motors and Generators
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 12 in; 21.59 cm x 21.59 cm x 30.48 cm