General Electric type CE direct current motor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Nameplate: "Continuous Current Motor; Shunt Wound; No. 96322; Type C.E. class 2-3 HP 1200; Form E; Speed 1200; Volts 500; Open HP 3 Amps 5.3; Closed H.P. 2 1/2; Amps 4.6. Pat. 2/14/88; 9/18/88; 10/9/88; 2/25/90; 11/10/91; 4/26/92; 12/14/97; 1/31/99 / General Electric Co. / Schenectady, NY." Enclosed DC motor with centrally-revolving armature and drive pulley wheel. Commutator segments on one end of shaft have two carbon brushes affixed. Four binding posts appear on top of frame. Similar to motor described in General Electric Co., Power and Mining Dept. Bulletin No. 4180, May 1, 1899.
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.319270
label: accession number
content: 235101
label: catalog number
content: 319270
label: serial number
content: 96322
objectType: label: Object Name
content: motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 27 in x 31 in; 58.42 cm x 68.58 cm x 78.74 cm