Curtis & Crocker type IE direct current motor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1886
name: label: maker
content: C & C Electric Motor Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A bipolar direct current motor with flat-type commutator segments affixed to an armature shaft. Two brushes are clamped onto the frame. Input voltage is applied to two binding posts on wooden base. Painted label on frame reads: "C&C Electric Motor Co. / New York / Patented Dec. 21st, 1886 / 354,588 354,538 / 354,539 / Type IE No. 747." Reference: MacLaren, The Rise of the Electrical Industry During the Nineteenth Century, page 92; figure 59, page 93. See: US Patent 354538, "Dynamo Electric Machine or Motor," issued 21 December 1886 to Charles G. Curtis and Schuyler S. Wheeler; US Patent 354539, "Dynamo Electric Machine and Electric Motor," issued 21 December 1886 to Charles G. Curtis and Schuyler S. Wheeler; and US Patent 354588, "Dynamo Electric Machine and Electric Motor," issued 21 December 1886 to Charles G. Curtis and Schuyler S. Wheeler.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.318538
label: catalog number
content: 318538
label: accession number
content: 232729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 6 5/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 22.225 cm x 16.8275 cm x 16.51 cm