Weston model 44 DC tachometer generator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1921
name: label: maker
content: Weston
label: maker
content: Weston Electrical Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Weston Model 44. First design of Weston direct current tachometer generator containing essentially an instrument type magnet and pole pieces, with a wound-drum armature and commutator for delivering a voltage proportional to speed. For aircraft use. Tag reads: "Weston Magneto / Model 44 Type 2 No. 258 / Adjusted with / Model [illegible] No. [illegible] / Weston Elec. Inst. Co. / Newark. N.J. - U.S.A." Reference: Test of Weston Model 44 Electrical Tachometer (Equipment Section Test Report), Air Service Information Circular vol. IV, no. 316, (Washington: U.S. GPO, 15 March 1922).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Weston Electrical Instrument Corp., thru John H. Miller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.313671
label: catalog number
content: 313671
label: accession number
content: 191299
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Generator
label: Other Terms
content: Generator; Motors and Generators
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 5 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 13.335 cm x 11.43 cm