model of Trouve direct current motor
name: label: maker
content: Trouve Electric
label: possible maker
content: Trouve, Gustave
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Two solenoids alternately retract their cores attached to a rocker arm. Solenoids have red cloth cover. Groenendijk catalog, page 20, unit 5h-8 (described as Trouve motor). See also, Benjamin Silliman, Principles of Physics or Natural Philosophy (Philadelphia : 1865), page 613 has an illustration that appears similar to specimen in the solenoidal and iron cylinder construction. Picture is of a Page type machine which was capable of 6-1/2 HP. See also: Wetzler, The Electric Motor, page 11 for an Illustration of Bourbouze motor with similar solenoidal structure.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.315540
label: collector/donor number
content: 5h-8
label: catalog number
content: 315540
label: accession number
content: 216300
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
label: Other Terms
content: Motor; Motors and Generators
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in x 16 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 19.685 cm x 42.545 cm