Reciprocating Armature Engine
date: label: date made
content: mid-nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Grafton Page (1812-1868), an early American electrical scientist, devised this type of reciprocating armature engine in the late 1830s, and presented it “as proof that electro-magnetism is susceptible of useful application where only a small power is wanted.” Daniel Davis, Jr., in Boston, made Page’s original instrument. Later examples were to be had from other instrument makers. This unsigned example came from Vassar College.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles G. Page, “Magneto-Electric and Electro-Magnetic Apparatus and Experiments,” <i>American Journal of Science</i> 35 (1839): 252-268, on 263-265.
label: Description
content: Daniel Davis, <i>Manual of Magnetism</i> (Boston, 1842), pp. 112-113.
label: Description
content: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1856), vol. 2, pp. 30-31.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0318.05
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0318.05
label: accession number
content: 1980.0318
objectType: label: Object Name
content: reciprocating armature engine
label: Object Name
content: Reciprocating Armature Engine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/8 in x 12 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 18.7325 cm x 31.75 cm x 13.97 cm