Bernz Steam Engine Model
date: label: date made
content: 1911
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The museum’s catalogue records indicate that this toy steam engine and boiler is a model number 7 made by Otto Bernz. This model is marked “Otto Bernz, Newark, N.J., Pat. Mar 16, 1911.” Otto Bernz (later BernzOmatic) was a well known gasoline torch manufacturer. This patent refers to patent number 536,192 which was a patent for an automatic pressure torch. It is possible that this model uses the automatic pressure described in the patent to run the horizontal engine.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.328987
label: catalog number
content: 328987
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, steam engine and boiler
label: Object Name
content: steam engine and boiler, toy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (bed material)
label: Measurements
content: base: 5 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; x 14.605 cm x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 20.955 cm x 14.605 cm x 10.795 cm