patent model, Lamar electro-magnetic motor, US 225395
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
name: label: maker
content: Lamar, James S.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A model to accompany US Patent 225395, "Electro-magnetic Motor," issued 9 March 1880 to James S. Lamar, Augusta, Georgia, filed 28 November 1879. Has 3 tags attached with patent information and a description of how it should work. Brown wooden frame with brass gearing and electrical components. Wooden stator with six horseshoe magnets on each side (four missing from front, three missing from back). Wooden rotor has twelve wooden coils mounted around the edge with a brass strap. Steel arm on front, pulley on back, steel axle. Leather pads cushion the magnets on the back.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the Estate of Edith R. Meggers, thru Howard Kolodny
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.334743
label: catalog number
content: 334743
label: accession number
content: 314637
label: patent number
content: 225395
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: 11 in x 12 in x 10 in; 27.94 cm x 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm