Spring Driven Toy Compressor
notes: label: Description
content: This is a spring-driven toy compressor, which appears to be home made. It is part of a selection of toy engines and tools bequeathed by Greville Inverness Bathe.
label: Description
content: Bathe was a mechanical engineer who had the hobby of building and collecting historic scale model steam engines, and he had accumulated around 800 toy engines, having built around 50 himself.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.329041
label: catalog number
content: 329041
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toy, Beam Engine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: flywheel - from catalog card: 3 1/2 in; x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: tank - from catalog card: 5 in x 3 in; x 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: base - from catalog card: 3 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; x 8.89 cm x 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 5 in; 13.335 cm x 17.145 cm x 12.7 cm