Turbine Style Egg Beater
date: label: date made
content: 1912-1922
notes: label: Description
content: Turbine style egg beater or whip made of sheet metal. Large metal crankwheel mounted on upper framework, set vertically above one smaller cog wheel and shaft which enable the mixing motion when cranked by the unpainted wooden crank grip. Circle pattern cut into crankwheel. Single mixing component, vertical steel rod for central component, with circular notched attachment that spins when cranked. Bent sheet metal handle at top. Crank wheel is marked: "TURBINE EGG BEATER/PAT. AUG. 20, 1912/MFGD BY/ THE CASSADY FAIRBANK MFG. CO./CHICAGO, U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Maker is the Cassady-Fairbank Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Illinois, which was consolidated with the Wire Goods Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Andrews Wire Company and Iron Works of Rockford under one name, the Washburn Company, in 1922.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary Eloise Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.322793.33
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 435
label: catalog number
content: 322793.33
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 6.0325 cm x 27.305 cm x 8.89 cm