Duck fuse box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: William B. Duck Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "Duck / Toledo". Square wooden box with two 6 amp / 125 v fuses mounted in sockets. Fuses from Chicago Fuse Mfg. Co. Three binding posts on side of unit provide connections to external circuit. Two 2 mfd condensers are mounted internally. Binding posts have a double needle point spark gap attached. This device is designed to protect the low voltage windings of transformers from inductive effects, surges, and kick-backs. Ref: William B. Duck Co., Catalog #14 (1920), page 20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.321219
label: catalog number
content: 321219
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fuse box
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 6 in; 8.5725 cm x 13.97 cm x 15.24 cm