Brooks Water Wheel, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1880
label: patent date
content: 1880-02-10
name: label: inventor
content: Brooks, Edgar B.
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with the application for the patent issued to Edgar B. Brooks, of La Porte, Indiana, February 10, 1880; no. 224270.
label: Description
content: This is a nicely made brass model of an inward-flow reaction turbine having the register type of adjustable feed chutes or guide vanes and a cylinder water gate. The combination relieves the guide vanes of the function of cutting off the water when the wheel is to be stopped and makes it unnecessary that the guide vanes close perfectly, so that any looseness developed in them by wear is immaterial.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana
label: associated place
content: United States: Indiana, La Porte
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.309689
label: catalog number
content: 309689
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 224,270
objectType: label: Object Name
content: turbine, hydraulic, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, water wheel turbine
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-from catalog card: 14 in x 10 in; 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 24.13 cm x 21.59 cm