Sani-Way Sales electric hot dog cooker
date: label: Date made
content: c1904
label: date made
content: ca 1904
name: label: maker
content: Sani-Way Sales Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is a commercial grade hot dog cooker used at Coney Island in the early twentieth-century. The base is metal covered with white porcelain. The unit has six vertical glass cylinders, each open on both ends, into which hot dogs are placed. Green hinged covers are set on top of each cylinder, and a carbon electrode is set inside each cover. Another carbon contact in the bottom of each cylinder rests on a spring that keeps pressure on the hot dog, ensuring a good electrical connection.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The operator loads hot dogs into the cylinders, closes the covers, and switches on the power. A 110 volt current of electricity passes through the hot dogs, quickly heating them. A 2-prong plug connector is installed on one side of the base for the power cord. A metal tag around the plug reads: "The Sani-Way Sales Co., Youngstown Ohio. Pat. Pending. 110 volts 500 watts 60 cps".
label: Description (Brief)
content: Many people in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries visited the amusement parks on Coney Island, New York. While there, they could enjoy a variety of foods, including hot dogs. We do not know which of the three parks on Coney Island this cooker came from.
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Yvette Phillips
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.330661
label: catalog number
content: 330661
label: accession number
content: 254702
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Appliance
label: Object Name
content: electric kitchen appliance
label: Other Terms
content: Appliance; Appliances
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (tubes (6) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 7 in x 15 in; 27.94 cm x 17.78 cm x 38.1 cm