Cordless Electric Iron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: Eureka
notes: label: Description
content: Chrome-plated electric flatiron (A), dry, no steam function, with base (B).
label: Description
content: (A)Triangular-shaped soleplate, curved, streamlined body. Horizontal handle, curved and molded black bakelite, flared at back. Fabric gauge is on top of body, molded plastic knob, burgundy. Attached metal plate on body is printed in black sans serif: “EUREKA/CORDLESS/AUTOMATIC/DETROIT” with red stars. Right side of soleplate is stamped: “25054”
label: Description
content: (B)Curved, triangular-shaped base, iron (A) sits on top, heats. Metal with plastic edge. Heat control stamped into back, with molded plastic knob, black. Power cord attaches to back, fabric cord, metal coil, brown and white cord, with black plastic plug, two-pronged. Top of base is stamped/engraved: "EUREKA AUTOMATIC/CORDLESS IRON/MADE IN U.S.A./EUREKA VACUUM CLEANER CO./DETROIT, MICH./115 VOLTS 1300 WATTS AC ONLY/MODEL NO. 150-A”. Attached sticker on underside of base, white, printed black “MANUFACTURED UNDER ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING LETTERS PATENT: [MISSING],888 – 2,181,042 – 2,202,440 – [MISSING]4,132”.
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: US 2151888 A, March 28, 1939, Ralph H. Beach, for “Electric iron”
label: Description
content: 2,181,042, November 21, 1939, Ralph H. Beach, for “Electric heating device”
label: Description
content: 2,202,440, May 28, 1940, Ralph H. Beach, for “Electrical switching means”
label: Description
content: This iron is from the Hoover Company Sample collection, North Canton, Ohio, including samples by Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis (Missouri), which was bought by Hoover in 1969. It is noted: “Hoover Company Collection tag Sample 25054/Rec’d. 8/26/46/Model 150-A/”HISTORICAL MODEL”
label: Description
content: The Hoover number is stamped on the right side of the soleplate (25054).
label: Description
content: Maker is Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1909-present. In 1954, the company merged with Williams Oil-O-Matic, of Bloomington, Illinois (founded 1918), and became the Eureka-Williams Corporation. The company merged with the National Union Electric Corporation in 1960.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Daily Life
label: Subject
content: electricity
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
label: Subject
content: Patented
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Hoover Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0835.09
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0835.09
label: accession number
content: 1991.0835
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 10 3/8 in; 14.9225 cm x 12.065 cm x 26.3525 cm