Westinghouse transformer coil
date: label: date made
content: 1886
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse
label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A secondary coil from an 1886 Westinghouse installation. A flat, oval shaped coil made of insulated copper wires wrapped with electrical tar tape. Four connecting leads, splice on top near leads. No extant maker marks. Typewritten label reads: "50 volt secondary coil of #4 transformer of original line of 1886. 30 turns of two #8 wires. Also gives method of placing 8-shaped plate around coils. References: Electrical World 8, page 231. Malcolm MacLaren, "The rise of the electrical industry during the nineteenth century" (Princeton, 1943) figure 125, page 176. Tower coil and plates now lacking.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, thru Dean Howard Menand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318561
label: catalog number
content: 318561
label: accession number
content: 232729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coil, Transformer
label: Object Name
content: transformer coil
label: Other Terms
content: Coil, Transformer; Magnetic Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 6 in x 16 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 15.24 cm x 41.91 cm