Westinghouse direct current generator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1888
label: date made
content: ca. 1888
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Markings: "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. / No.520 / Rev.1350," a metal number "2" attached. Frame made of four parts; cast and machined pole pieces. Four elliptical electromagnet field coils are symmetrically arranged around a rotating central armature. Pole pieces are curved and arranged horizontally above and below shaft. Four carbon brushes are used in an adjustable rigging. One brush is missing and one adjusting screw mount is bent back. Dynamo built between 1886 and 1888.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Northern States Power Co., thru Henry Grenacher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.310953
label: catalog number
content: 310953
label: accession number
content: 111010
label: maker number
content: 520
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrical generator
label: Object Name
content: direct current dynamo
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 35 in x 48 in; 48.26 cm x 88.9 cm x 121.92 cm