General Electric dynamometer
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Dynamometer. Wooden base plate with 2 leveling legs, 3 binding posts, adjustment screw. Four vertical glass tubes provide insulation and support for the scale housing on top. Two nested fixed inner coils and a movable outer coil. Scale graduated 0 to 350 by 10s, graduations in tens, fives, and ones. Spring mechanism between scale housing and coils. Glass cover for use, canvas cover for storage. Plate on base reads: "General Electric / Company / Schenectady, N.Y. U.S.A. / No. 279938 / N.P. 4562C".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from General Electric Co., thru W. J. Maxwell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.326511
label: catalog number
content: 326511
label: accession number
content: 260036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dynamometer
label: Other Terms
content: Dynamometer; Measuring Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 8 in x 8 in; 35.56 cm x 20.32 cm x 20.32 cm