Weeden "Eureka" Toy Steam Engine
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts produced this Weeden No. 32 toy steam engine during the late 19th century until around 1927. The engine was known as the “Eureka” model, and consisted of a steel jacketed brass boiler with two star cutouts and an overtype horizontal slide valve engine and flywheel. The metal end of the boiler reads “WEEDEN/TRADE MARK/ REG. U.S. PAT. OFF./32/THE WEEDEN/EUREKA.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Weeden Manufacturing Company was founded in New Bedford, Massachusetts by William M. Weeden in the early 1880s, originally producing a variety of tinplate household items. In 1884 it introduced the Weeden No. 1 Steam engine as “a new and great premium for boys” who were subscribers to the <i>Youth’s Companion</i> magazine. Weeden made over a hundred different models of toy steam engines until the company ceased operations in 1952.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
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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
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
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.328966
label: catalog number
content: 328966
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, portable steam engine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (boiler material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (stack material)
label: Measurements
content: boiler: 8 in x 4 1/2 in; x 20.32 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: flywheel: 4 in; x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in; 33.02 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 9 3/8 in x 4 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 23.8125 cm x 11.43 cm