Alcohol-Burning Heating Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1849-02-13
label: patent date
content: 1849-02-13
name: label: inventor
content: Anderson, Thomas K.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 6,107) of an alcohol-burning heating stove made by Thomas K. Anderson of Painted Post, NY, and patented on February 13, 1849. Consists of a reservoir barrel with covered cylindrical gas chamber on top from which a curved supply pipe runs to the bottom opening of an open-ended tapered cylinder placed at the center of the reservoir; an additional U-shaped pipe extends from the gas chamber to tube top. Soft-soldered folded and lapped seams. Supply pipe broken off. One barrel support bent. No marks on object, but a darkened paper tag, torn in half, with purple wove ribbon that is stored with object is printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Painted Post
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Painted Post
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251773
label: catalog number
content: 251773
label: patent number
content: 6,107
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, heating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper wire (stopcock handles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in; 21.9075 cm x 10.795 cm x 15.5575 cm